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Gomorrah's Season Ends

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The album EC matured into one of the heaviest hardcore bands around. Both lyricaly and instrumentaly this record serves as a call to arms for people to consider what they are doing regardless of sXe. In my opinion EC best album.

This is the best Earth Crisis CD i've heard. The music is intense and emotional, the lyrics are brutal and urgent, although you can't understand a word that's screamed. One thing that I find odd about EC is that for a band that is so pro-harmony and unity with all creatures of the earth, and so anti-agressive, they seem to be extrememly militant. Nevertheless, a true hardcore release.

This album, the follow up to Destroy the Machines, is (in my opinion) the last of the Earth Crisis masterpieces. Though they remain true to their beliefs in their later albums, nothing after Gomorrah's Season captures the pure rage and emotion of this (and their earlier releases).

Check out the lyrics to 'Morality Dictates': "Crowded against one another, or penned into an artifical environment. Unbearable lonliness, separated from their fellow creatures contact. Individual innocent beings, each cow, sheep, pig, goat or chicken. Viewed as a product to be processed. Raised only to be slaughtered and consumed. Murdered victims enshrouded with false names that deny their suffering. Beef, mutton, pork and poultry. Creatures torn and butchered only for the petiness of the flavour of their decaying flesh. The carnage of the slaughterhouse is all completely unnecessary for sustenance of techonologically advanced mankind. Constantly brainwashed from the beginning to believe the opposite of this truth. The brutality is anacceptable. I strive to end the exploitation. Morality dictates. Morality dictates. Morality dictates. Morality dictates that I live vegan."

I can't say enough positive things about this record. Despite numerous people bashing on this band for being overly-militant, I find them to fundamentally be doing some good for this world. They are really just trying to make a better world and I think it is a noble cause. The opening song on this CD, "Broken Foundation," is so uplifting and empowering. I hope the message in this song in particular can be reached to many more people in the world, not just in the "hardcore scene" (whatever that is). I applaud Earth Crisis and their efforts to create a more socially conscious and caring world. Kudos! --Kelly Magovern

This record is emotionally powered hardcore. Earth Crisis tackles the issues others want nothing to do with: the destruction of our earth, vivisection, man's inhumanity toward his fellow man, drug addiction etc. This band fuels my personal vegetarian-straight edge struggle. Bottom line: Their music fuels my internal flame.

I'm from the "old School" years of Hardcore. Still to this day I listen and enjoy every second of this masterpiece. if you're into not only listening to a record for it's message but also for it's musicianship this IS the album to get.Everything starts up with "Broken Foundation" the screams of "PAIN!!!" hits you like a punch in the throat...it goes on and on and never lets go.... ARISE AND BUILD ANEW....EXPRESS RELEASE!!!

El punk resultaba atractivo por que cualquiera podía coger una guitarra y ponerse a cantar. Esto ya no era punk, por que no todos podíamos tocar como Earth Crisis. Mezclaron sin complejos sus influencias de Slayer o Black Sabbath con enormes X's pintarrajeadas en las manos. Empezó a hablarse de metal-hardcore y las ventas de sus discos hicieron grande al sello de Chicago Victory Records y a un personaje tan polémico como Tony Brummel, el primero que descubrió que el hardcore podría ser un negocio. "Gomorrah's Season Ends" es un disco complejo que necesita varias escuchas. Cuando querían algo más inmediato, grababan como The Path of Resistance con un par de colegas de Syracuse, la ciudad de la que eran nativos. En el 2001 y en un rasgo de honestidad que les honra, optaron por reconvertirse en Freya antes de seguir estirando la leyenda de Earth Crisis.

A long, long time ago I used to be a poser Pantera fan, I went to Pantera shows and pushed other pantera kids around in a so-called mosh pit and thought that this was aggressive music at its best; then came Earth Crisis's release of Gommorahs Season Ends.
I am in debt to Earth Crisis for showing me the light. The power that this album had and still has over me has brought me to a hardcore scene which has breathed new life into the importance of what hardcore is all about. Although this album is not necessarilly a hardcore style album, the message, raw energy, and uncompromising value that it brings to the table represents the best of the hardcore spirit. Earth Crisis has never done anything better than this. This disc has been in my cd player for nearly ten years and I listen to it day after day and it never gets old; and it never will.
Earth Crisis has broken up and have (sorry to say) sold out their style for what ever reason they may have had. However, Earth Crisis made a statement with this album and like other important albums in hardcore lore (Integrity's- Humanity is the devil, Bloodlet's - Entheogen, Strife's - In this defiance, Shai Hulud's - Hearts once nourished) the album will never die, it's flame burns brighter then their sell out releases that followed shortly after, making Earth Crisis one of the most important bands in New School hardcore.
Perhaps someday Earth Crisis will rise again and bring us another album full of power and anthems until then Gommorahs Season Ends will do just fine; this album packs a punch that will last a thousand years.
ARISE AND BUILD ANEW (the last line from broken foundation)

Earth Crisis is a band with a message. The only problem with their message is you can't understand a word Karl Buechner (vocals) is saying. So it was a good idea for them to print the lyrics. Aside from the vocals, Gamorrah's Season Ends was an extremely good album.