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Dead Mountain Mouth

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i'm not even sure what to say about this album that hasn't been said. this is one of the most ecclectic, intense, aggressive, soothing, catchy, melodic, retardedly heavy, and dancable albums i've ever heard. actually i'm pretty sure it's the only album i've ever heard to which all of those adjectives even apply. it's also excellent, easily album-of-the-year material. if you've ever thought that maybe, just maybe, playing pig destroyer's and boards of canada's entire discographies simultaneously might not be a bad idea, buy this immediately. actually, f-ck that, if you in any way enjoy intelligent grind, metal, or mellowed-out ambient brain jams, preferably all three, buy this immediately.

I can't remember the last time I heard an album this intense. Genghis Tron combines the unrelenting fury of a band like Agoraphobic Nosebleed with the madness of Converge's masterpiece "Jane Doe," while showing minor ambient electronic influences. This album definitely isn't for everyone; even as someone who listens to the previously mentioned bands it took me a few listens to wrap my head around it. But anyone who is a fan of either experimental or extreme music should definitely check this out.

There's no band quite like Genghis Tron. seriously how many grindcore bands have samples and breakbeats? Brilliant. With a band as creative as Genghis Tron the sky is the limit.

Dead mountain mouth has some of the fastest heaviest stuff you'll hear. but it also has some really beautiful ambient parts that not only add to the eclectic sound of the album but really adds that extra push when they smash your skull after a quiet pretty interlude.

Seriously this album will rock your face off if you buy it. Genghis Tron deserves more credit than they get. One of the most innovative and talented bands I've heard in a long time. Buy this along with their EP Cloak Of Love, your mind will be blown.

This is basically the sound of tuning an FM radio from inside a 1980s mainframe. A soundtrack to uploading Genghis Khan's consciousness to digital memory. The crazies in Genghis Tron spend equal time sounding like 65 Days of Static crossbred with Gregorian chant as they do thrashing the bejesus out of their guitars and vocal chords, Blood Brothers style, as if the end is truly near. Call them the Panic! At The Disco of grindcore.

Surprisingly, it's actually not too bad. The album's brevity should be praised, as anything in this vein much longer than thirty minutes or so runs the risk of biting the listener's ears right off. Length makes the record more palatable for replay value.

Considering that the vocals are as indecipherable as the next death metal band's, "Dead Mountain Mouth" is really an experiment in texture. Square wave wind chimes; too-perfectly-in-time, rabid-fire techno house drums; and digitally-created choral mirages play lieutenants to the raw meat guitars. If musical schizophrenia is your bag, you've arrived. Where, exactly, is another question. Simultaneously the past and the future?

Probably not, but it's an interesting listen nonetheless.

insane drum machine action combined with furious riffing and ambient sounds. these guys go from sounding like the most extreme grind band to like background music to a nature channel, and it f*cking rules.

This album is just down-right scary. Delivering a massive blast of Converge-esque grind/noise and coloring it very cleverly with sampling make Genghis Tron's 'Dead Mountian Mouth' one of grindcore's most atmospheric and haunting releases to date. Neither element of this bands evil concoction takes anything away from the other, rather, both compliment each other very casually.

You would probably suspect such a diverse feat to sound hacked, and maybe cut-and-paste sounding. My friends, this is definately not another Horse the Band. The sampling is a far cry from being a mere gimmick. Genghis Tron achieve atmospheres like most grindcore bands are incapable of with the use of sampling, and not once in this entire album, does the sampling cut in pointlessly. The flow is never disrupted, and the atmosphere is constant and frightening. A perfectly demented, and clever creation.

First of all, this is an excellent album. Where as the last album was very spaztic and switched from grind to dance beats in a second, this record is very fluid and each song sounds like its is actually like one song, instead of the last album where it sounds like each song is 20 songs all thrown together. Don't get me wrong. I love Cloak of Love, but this album just improves on it so much.

This isn't music. If you want something very different, this might be for you. There is no rhyme or reason to this album, just a bunch of different sounds thrown together.