Old Man Gloom: reviews, albums and info on DeBaser

Old Man Gloom

Musical Group

Forfans of sludge/post-metal, post-hardcore, and experimental heavy music with ambient/noise detours.
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The Profile

Old Man Gloom is an American metal supergroup formed in 1999 by Aaron Turner with drummer Santos Montano, featuring members associated with Isis, Converge, and Cave In. Their releases fuse sludge/post-hardcore weight with ambient, noise, and industrial textures, including the Seminar series and the album Christmas.

Founded in 1999 by Aaron Turner and Santos Montano; members and contributors have included Nate Newton, Caleb Scofield, Luke Scarola, and Jay Randall. Known for sludge/post-metal blended with ambient/noise and the Seminar series. American.

DeBaser’s reviews paint Old Man Gloom as a US post-core/post-metal supergroup merging sludge-weight riffs with ambient, noise and industrial detours. Albums like Meditations in B, Seminar II/III, and Christmas are described as claustrophobic, intense and conceptually unified. Writers highlight corrosive vocals, monolithic guitars, feedback-drenched drones and jarring interludes. Overall tone: challenging but acclaimed.

Notable Quotes

❝ Old Man Gloom are not just any band. Considering they are formed by members of Isis, Converge, and Cave-In, they can truly be considered a supergroup of the post-core scene.

❝ Pain, despair, anger, annoyance, a sense of suffocation, that's what this record tells us, and that's where Old Man Gloom wants to lead us... into their world!

❝ This project is a true monster with features of Post-Hardcore, Sludge, Unclassifiable, Industrial, Mathcore, and more… a nice auditory prologue to the group's subsequent projects that we like so much… indeed!