TranscendNoise

30. Old Man Gloom – The Ape Of God When thinking about doom metal, what comes to mind predominantly is the concrescence of downtrodden guttural vocal work, heavy instrumentation and the occasional feeling for ambient sound. Old Man Gloom however stretch that formula adding the hardcore elements of Converge and a good amount of eerie noise found in projects like Lotus Eaters. The Ape Of God might come close to recalling the experience of waterboarding. The instrumentals evoke drowning, although there is not even a stretched instrumental part present. It is drowning while standing in the dry, fully aware of the externally infused torture upon you. Hard hitting tracks like “Fist Of Fury” further this notion of torture through their unforgiving screeching and Aaron Turners voice stopping the progression of the track as if asking “had enough now?”. For the noise part, almost every lengthier song features a meditative section, that is, praying for the rashness to have finally st...