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Rating: How is it possible, dear God, that there isn’t even a single review on the site about the monumental music of Earth Crisis?
The time has come to put an end to this absurd omission.
The band from Syracuse, New York State, represents from its inception the most fundamentalist and concrete example of Hardcore-Straight Edge-Animalist militancy.
"Gomorrah's Season Ends" is their best discography work; one of those pieces that spins me out both spirit and body. It's a nervous breakdown considering the degree of total sonic intransigence achieved.
It is violent from the cover onward: a bloody handprint on a wall, while a black human figure takes on a livid form in a mirror.
It's Karl's beastly scream that opens the album; a creeping voice, strained to the utmost that does not allow a single second of "melody" throughout the nine songs which compose this raw onslaught. A continuous series of nervous, limping guitar riffs; there is no trace of solos.
They always move with slowed, suffocating tempos; continuous shifts in registry, in total control without ever seeking execution speed.
To give substance to my creeping writing advance, it is enough for me to mention the over SEVEN (!!) minutes of "Names Carved Into Granite": a wicked song already from the title. A slow and relentless journey that knocks you down, envelops you in spirals of unheard heaviness, with a central break that for a moment seems to ease the tension generated. An illusion of a few seconds because right after you plunge back into the abyss, with a finale so slowed and exasperating that it draws them close to Sludge-Doom soundscapes...LETHAL point and new line.
Take it or leave it, there's no middle ground with Earth Crisis. I have already taken my stance, since the release year of their work in 1996, on their side.
Ad Maiora.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Cease to Exist (03:54)
Doomsday befalls. Awakened by sirens, the fifteen minute warning.
ICBMs scream from their silos into the
sky. Warheads detonate over their targets.
Nuclear blasts incinirate city after city. Swept away by the shock of the
explosions humankind dies in agony.
Ash blocks the sun from penetrating the choked atmosphere.
The global temperature drops
into nuclear winter. Below, radiation poisoned air,
soil and water is all that's to be found.
By what is left of who is left
fires burn from the haze of a darkened world.
Charred skins hangs from the bones of survivors as they struggle trhough
leveled rubble. Past-gutted buildings and unburied bodies.
Hell rages on the face of the earth. All creation lays at the
mercy of madmen whose commands will cast us into world war three.
If the keys turn from the press of a switch all life as we
know it shall cease to exist. Cease to exist. Cease to exist.
Cease to exist. Cease to exist.
04 Constrict (04:17)
Rage has ruled me for so long that I don't want to think anymore.
I've tried to claw my way out, but I am sealed
in. It seems the game is designed to make me lose.
It's weight slowly drags me down. I draw a breath as I slip under. The dim
light fades as descent begins. I have to fight my way through.
Stark flesh sinks through the freezing liquid darkness. Pale
hands bound before me, rushing deeper with every heartbeat.
I will not relent to despair. As depression contricts it's coils
close in around me. Depression contricts.
My will is the blade that cuts the coils from around me.
06 Situation Degenerates (02:41)
The situation degenerates. Again alcohol hits the bloodstream.
Overwhelmed by the desire to feed the
desire. Inebriation numbs the brain. Nothing changes, nothing improves.
Empty bottles and empty days. The captive is pulled
deeper into an aimless maze.
Wasted time passes as the walls of the vice close in.
Dying internal organs no longer fuction.
Judgement impaired, direction lost.
Trapped in a repeating process.
Wasted time passes as the walls of the vice close in.
Dying internal organs no longer fuction.
Judgement impaired, direction lost.
Trapped in a repeating process. The painkiller
takes a life. The painkiller takes a life.
The painkiller takes a life. The painkiller takes a life.
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