Dragged Into Sunlight / Gnaw Their Tongues - N.V. [Collaboration] - review
Dragged Into Sunlight / Gnaw Their Tongues - N.V. [Collaboration] - review
Album
N.V. [Collaboration] Release date
November 13, 2015 Tracklist
01. Visceral Repulsion02. Absolver
03. Strangled With The Cord
04. Omniscienza
05. Alchemy In The Subyear
A review by
Auntie Sahar November 12, 2015
The music on N.V. (that stands for Negative Volume, apparently) is just about everything you could expect out of two of the most vile and hateful-sounding bands ever to step foot on Planet Metal. As soon as "Visceral Repulsion" opens the album with the beautifully caressing audio sample of a murderer detailing how he strangled a victim, you know that shit is about to get real. This track in particular leans much more towards a Gnaw Their Tongues type of sound, more doomy, "thicker" than the riproaring ferocity of Dragged Into Sunlight, and dominated by the painful shrieks of Mories. When it was initially released before the album streamed in full, a few people were thus worried that N.V. was going to be swallowed up by Mories's sound. First impressions, however, can be misleading.
What follows from there is an absolutely wonderful blend of the bands' two sounds. The two combine quite splendidly, as on "Absolver" (personal favorite), where at first we're treated to a very crunchy, blastbeat-heavy style more reminiscent of Dragged Into Sunlight, before the track segways in the middle into more of a haunting, dark ambient type sound that you know is sitting in Gnaw Their Tongues territory. Interestingly enough, for a good portion of this album, although you can hear the Dragged Into Sunlight sound at many points, it feels more embracing of its black metal influence, even though it is still catchy and kind of sludgey, you can hear the kvlt side of things way more. Mories may have had a role in that, he may have not, but whatever the case is, it only further confirms how excellently these musicians fused their sounds together here.
The sound of N.V. is all over the place, and seems to cover all the various bases that both Gnaw Their Tongues and Dragged Into Sunlight have touched upon in their own discographies. It can therefore be very difficult at times to discern who was responsible for which part of the composition, Mories or the DIS guys. But that's exactly what makes it so fantastic. The sound of both bands just seems to come together into a natural synthesis that transcends both of their individual sounds. It's the same technique that made Altar amazingly good, that made I Shall Die Here amazingly good, and that this year is making N.V. amazingly good as well.
Throw up those horns and immerse yourself in what is unquestionably one of the most agonizing listening experiences of 2015.
Written by Auntie Sahar | November 12, 2015
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This album is sooooo good, even for someone like me who never really got into either band in a big way.
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Posts: 5989 Written by flightoficarus on 12.11.2015 at 18:05 Yeah, I'd be surprised if people who tried getting into GTT and/or DIS before and didn't like either don't end up liking this one, because the diversity of sound here may end up compensating for what they were looking for in either case. I hope this album will also get a lot of DIS fans into GTT, and possibly more Mories projects by extension. The reverse could happen as well, but honestly I'd be more surprised if GTT fans don't already know of DIS than vice versa, just due to the fact that Mories is generally more obscure
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. ~ II. VII
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Posts: 1127 Written by Auntie Sahar on 12.11.2015 at 21:23 Given that I dig this, any recommendations in either direction for their other material that I might enjoy? I forget what I have tried so far, but I recall the GTT stuff I heard to be a little too droney. Been a while.
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Posts: 5989 Written by flightoficarus on 12.11.2015 at 22:41 It kinda depends on what you're looking for. Gnaw Their Tongues is basically a fusion of black metal, drone, and noise, but no two albums sound too much the same, and every one seems to embrace one of those three over the other. I prefer the project when it's sitting in more of a "blackened drone" territory, for example, All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity is my favorite. Knowing your tastes though, you may like something that's more black metal dominant, so I'd suggest you start with Eschatological Scatology, or the Per Flagellum one. Know though that even when the black metal is dominating it's still pretty out there and cloaked in the drone and noise influences, so sometimes the answer to the question of which takes precedence can be pretty ambiguous
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. ~ II. VII
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Everybody is stating how awesome this album is, and I'm just sitting here masturbating. Perhaps I should mute the porn and play it as background music. Actually I am really curious to get to it because of Mories, but the Dragged into Sunlight bit is making me smell a rat...
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Posts: 5989 Written by Karlabos on 12.11.2015 at 23:39 Get out of here, infidel 
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. ~ II. VII
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Posts: 5989 Written by koob on 13.11.2015 at 00:11 AOTY material for sure. Not the AOTY for me personally (that spot is reserved for Chaos Echoes), but it is pretty high up there
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. ~ II. VII
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Posts: 5989 Written by [user id=101272] on 13.11.2015 at 01:46 Not exactly surprising, you don't really strike me as the type of person who's as much into the Transient-type music as I am, and would probably enjoy this more. Nothing wrong with that, they're both FANTASTIC releases, but at the end of the day I just think Transient is way more deconstructive and punches holes through a lot more rules in the rulebook. And everyone knows what a sucker I am for originality in bands 
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. ~ II. VII
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Great review. Honestly? What I like about this collab is "murderers sharing experience on tape" while sound of DiS & Mories crushing in background. That was just so hauntingly sweet. Download it. Always have fun to listen to this.
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Posts: 5989 Written by megapsychoticone on 15.11.2015 at 17:06 WOOAAAH, seriously? It's cool that this album resonates with you on that level because of that personal experience. Care to offer an elaboration on the guy?
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. ~ II. VII
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