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Gog - Mist From The Random More [Utech Records - 2009]

Inside this impressive, black heavy paper sleeve is Gog's dark, heavy and expansive  album "Mist from the random more".  The album comprises of  three powerful tracks that range between 7 and 23 minutes long, the second track is the central piece as it’s the longest, and the first and last tracks can be seen as perhaps prologue and epilogue for a very heavy and sharp juggernaut of an album.

What’s on offer here is a mixture of post-rock, Black metal and darkly tinged ambience- so is it new to the ears or refreshing? Well, I guess the answers is no. Nevertheless, this should not make you feel any less about this album. Gog keep a powerful and ever growing momentum through-out, which they press harder and harder against the listener's face, never resting until the album ends. Their ominous, hostile music is surely making up for any possible lack of innovation.

The album begins with a nerve pinching guitar drone that grow wider and wider until it reaches the ongoing climax of the album which blasts a combination of  bombastic, mind melting drones with constant post rock explosions throughout each track. Obviously, the second track, which is also the title track, is the dominant part of the album, beginning with an almost static, airy stream of sound that mutates into a slow, dense vibration. Later on drums appear and give an obscure rhythm to it, thus turning this track to a different direction from its beginning

Halfway through, this title track changes shape and turns into a much more violent and chaotic music. Maybe, just maybe, a little more violence would make it even better. Either way, the now vibrant, rich music is, as time moves on, reduced slowly into an almost static drone. This is the last moment of any relative calmness before Gog explodes one more time, and if you thought that the first two thirds of the track sounded good, you’ll think the last, ending part sounds amazing.

That's how Gog sounds, Monumental hammering and irresistible. MFTRM ends slowly and even heavier than the way it began until it stops to be replaced by a constant buzz that sounds exactly the way my ears feel like, slowly recovering from this heavy attack. Recommended!

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