Gorgatron's Punishing Death Metal Flows Through a "Conduit of Pain" (Early Track Stream + Lyric Video)
For North Dakota's Gorgatron, death metal is about presence -- completely filling up the room and making sure their slicing riffs leave no room for doubt. Their upcoming album Sentience Revoked packs impressive swagger considering its breakneck pacing, with snarled vocals and catchy riffs interlocking into what at times almost feels like a swing rhythm, even if it's packed to the gills with double bass drums. It takes more than good production to achieve this much character in death metal, and Gorgatron have a knack for extracting misery with sublime efficiency. Sentience Revoked isn't the fastest death metal around, but its meaty grooves, where you can feel each snare hit and every palm-muted chug, arrive with a heightened sense of momentum and impending danger.
This death-dealing groove is especially evident on the band's new single "Conduit of Pain," which we're premiering today with a lyric video -- it's a snappy midpoint between OSDM and the genre's more technically influenced later evolutions that keeps invigorating riffs as a focal point. As the band explains below, real-life misery fuels this nightmarish ripper.
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Vocalist Karl Schmidt explains "Conduit of Pain" as follows:
The lyrics are about the time I got a concussion when I was tripping on mushrooms and had to go to the emergency room in an ambulance while tripping on mushrooms. It was the most horrific experience I have ever been through. That was the first time in my life I woke up in a hospital without any recollection of why I was there.
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Sentience Revoked releases June 21st via Redefining Darkness Records.
