Seminar Ii: The Holy Rights Of Primitivism

Featuring members of Cave In, SUMAC, ISIS [the band], Zozobra and Converge, OLD MAN GLOOM'S "Seminar II" has taken sludge rock and metal to it's furthest reaches yet, mixing Neurosis-style apocalyptic blasts, the kind of psychedelic, harrowing ambience that would give Earth nightmares and an obsession with all things simian. Santos Montaño (Zozobra) and Aaron Turner (SUMAC, ISIS... [the band]) are the thread that drives Old Man Gloom. What began as an act of immediacy has turned into a full-fledged band, with the addition of members Nate Newton (Converge, Cave In), Caleb Scofield (Cave In, Zozobra) and Luka Scarola (Luddite Antiques). Structurally: short, damaging sonic barbs, stylistically similar to Isis's dirge, yet unafraid to explore their more stoner rock leanings, intercut with ambient compositions, noise tracks and bizarre sonic manipulations, to form a fractured yet engrossing whole. A suffocating melange of various sound textures fused and soldered together by five ambitious musicians - with the help of alt-metal producer/guru Kurt Ballou. Indeed, Old Man Gloom's music is a successful jaunt into the deepest recesses of discord, where fortuity and pure energy collide in a spectacular landscape of sound and sight. 1. Brain Returns To Initial State2. Bells Dark Above Our Heads3. Branch Breaker4. Radio Crackles Spill Down My Face5. Hot Salvation6. Breath Drops Out In Ice And Glass7. Athena8. Roar Of The Forest Rose To Thunder8. Clenched Tight In The Fist Of God9. ... Only Dogs Hear (Here)10. Jaws Of The Lion11. Smoke Out Loud12. Deserts In Your Eyes13. Meditation In B Parts V & VI14. Cinders Of The Simian Psyche15. Three Ring Ocean Sideshow16. Mandied (Self: Reborn)