Cover of Old Man Gloom Christmas Eve I & II + 6
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For fans of old man gloom, lovers of post-hardcore and mathcore, and listeners who enjoy experimental, psychedelic, and ambient metal music.
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THE REVIEW

Religion is born from the spasmodic need to classify and contextualize one's soul within a mechanical logic akin to our visual perceptions.

Who knows what those primordial life forms thought at the sight of an alien colonization descending from the skies in all its magnificence.
Religion is born from the spasmodic need to classify oneself in the universe.
Religion is in complete antithesis to human spirituality and far from the mechanical principles of the universe.
Religion is a pretext for the necessities of human life, which converges in a greedy vision of knowledge.
Interstellar routes and astronomy, Interstellar geometry and placement of the pyramids, astrological combinations and arcane mysteries about their functioning.

Architecture, trigonometry, and engineering, acquisitions or gifts perpetuated by an encounter with a sky filled with stars. Religion is the history of men... it is war between men!

So it becomes spontaneous to wonder if Aaron Turner & Co. might be some squalid reincarnation of some great priest who screwed his head with some strange "aromatic" plant from the good old days.
Because supporting a decontextualized psychedelic vision, with a strange mystical value, of the post-Hardcore scene isn’t for everyone, or at least not in the way they mean it... don't believe it? Take a look here, here you can screw your mind in burning stroboscopic-lysergic-allergic-energetic visions... and resounding interstellar invasions under the warmest sun HD 10180 heating its planets among napalm and LSD fires...

A sound project, complicated by the insertion of cacophonous background sounds that create an alien asynchrony to any musical instrument, harsh metallic noises and ancestral sounds are projected among suffocating sidereal electronics, accompanied by oriental-sounding chords, devastated by wild and chaotic sudden mathcore moments.

Everything is condensed in an immense ambient architecture disturbed inside by an unconscious "diffraction," an oxymoron between relaxing perceptions and soul unrest.

You just need to close your eyes to open a new space-time gateway in which to learn the much-denied omniscience...

Good luck...

UH!

 

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Summary by Bot

This review praises Old Man Gloom's album Christmas Eve I & II +6 for its complex blend of post-hardcore, ambient, and chaotic mathcore elements. It highlights the psychedelic and mystical qualities that challenge conventional spirituality and invoke cosmic imagery. The music's layered cacophony and experimental sound design create a unique auditory experience that demands deep engagement. The album is portrayed as intense, visionary, and successfully unsettling.

Tracklist

01   Christmas Eve, Part I (07:08)

02   A.L.F. Makes Accident, or the Slow Advance of Now Liberated, but Virally Contagious Chimps (02:16)

03   Skull of Geronimo (feat. the vocal stylings of James Randall) (00:36)

04   Masami's Music Box 1 (00:49)

05   Branch Breaker (live in NYC) (00:49)

06   Masami's Music Box 2 (01:04)

07   Christmas Eve, Part II (05:04)

08   Gratuitous Bonus Track Made by Sensible Musicians Doing Questionable Things (feat. SB, AM, and JRC) (04:10)

Old Man Gloom

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.
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