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Gnaw Their Tongues
Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus
Crucial Blast (2011)
Nightmares are a hard thing to quantify. As they happen without any control or uniformity. The terror invoked can be quite real and seem silly later when described out loud. This is a problem many musicians have in trying to deal with dark, evil or, dare I say, nightmarish sounding music. Since the early days of metal (and possibly earlier) musicians have almost relied upon trying to create or recreate these thoughts with varying degrees of capability. Where as Alice Cooper talked about his nightmares and made a stage show out of it musicians of death and black metal sunbgenres have, on occasion, flirted with the subject never fully embodying the feeling of a nightmare fully. This is where Gnaw Their Tongues comes in. Mories, the sole member of this project has for the better part of the 2000's has dealt within that context almost stringently. Giving a soundtrack to nightmares or possibly Marquis De Sade's wet dreams. There is something disheartening and sickening about the sonic battlefield that is portrayed within Gnaw their Tongues music and aesthetic. Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus can be roughly translated to mean "with blood and whip, we worship the dark". This feels appropriate … Read more
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