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- Band:
Gawthrop - Duration: 00:36:34
- Available since: 19/09/2025
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Sentient Ruin
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If you have ever seen a South Korean series, you already know what to expect from the Gawthrop: the sound counterpart of characters socially disdained and obsessed with the discipline, immersed in plots that oscillate between the morbid and the grotesque. With just two demotapes behind (providentially collected by the sentient Ruin in the “Deterioraration” compilation) and a split with the Drug Noose, the Seoul quartet presents, seven years after its foundation, with a debut, “Kuboa” which by the Oltranzisti attitude and for the affinity of sounds recalls the brutal (e) Death of the Coffins.
Just from the Japanese band the Gawthrops seem to have borrowed a profound growl timbric, to the limit of the catacombal, which is threw on the lowered and rhythmic guitar riffs capable of lappering Death Doom territories, as in the catatonic trend of “Hogweed”.
Aware of the scarce appeal of their proposal, the Gawthrops do not care in the least of the listener's rights and on the contrary, they exploit the experience of the singer Songgun (aka Pyha, already in the Powerviolence Bamseom Pirates project) to give life to real noise rituals, who reach their culmination in the chiliant “Jimmy”, a song that could belong to the repertoire of Gnaw them Tongues and which was chosen with foresight as the second extract of the album.
Elsewhere, music is done, if not more accessible, at least linked to more well -known stylistic features, and lets emerge an albeit faint catchability, as in the case of the initial slut “bulbocapnine”, which recalls certain solutions of our Throne, or of the low and torn ropes that drag the “Granfallon” range; However, the most disturbing moment comes with “Nutria”, a descent into psychosis that oscillates between Meth Drinker and Enchantment, almost six minutes of sound asphyxiation strictly recommended only for lovers of the genre.
In less than forty minutes, “Kuboa” therefore presents itself as a deliberately difficult debut, which on the one hand suffers from a certain dependence on its sources of inspiration and a still derivative sound, on the other testifies the undeniable passion of the Asian bands for extreme music and their dedication in giving it the most disturbing form possible.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
