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Not
that the signing of a band like Gigan is a total
surprise but frankly after witnessing the barrage of
gothic, viking and power metal Napalm Records seems to
be hooked on as of lately I am quite surprised they
opted for a band as metal as this. I mean, a couple of
months ago when I got the promo for Katra I really
thought the label had bottomed out. Nothing wrong with
catering to a wide array of metal sub genres, but
please, let’s have some quality control in place. Then
Napalm Records signed Stuck Mojo, and there was
literally nothing else to say. I quit. Fuck it!
Not since
Ahab’s giant spawn The Call of the Wretched Sea had I
heard a Napalm release as solid and brutal as this. Sure that
Draconian (Turning Season Within) record was pretty cool,
but it wasn’t all that brutal and because of the genre that band
dwelled in, there was little technique to it.
Good to know
that Napalm Records is still taking chances. The fact that
The Order of the False Eye is being released thru this
Austrian label is evidence of that. Then again, so is the fact
that they signed fucking Stuck Mojo.
As brutal as
Gigan is, it might not be the most bestial band ever signed to
this label, but it might just be the most technical,
genre-bending and fucked up. Gigan is a trio formed in 2006.
They hail from Tampa and they totally shred. There is not much
melody to their tunes, but we are talking ultra brutal music
here. There is a bit of death metal, but for the most part Gigan
break free from that tag by writing songs that consistently defy
boundaries. The song “Hiding” for instance, is as fucked as a
Zappa freakout at its weirdest, except this is consistently
metal. It’s based around a swirling psychedelic guitar that
moves erratically at odd tempos. The fact that the song is an
exercise in finger-freedom and space rock ties Gigan to both;
psychedelic rock and jazz. The fact that the technique is
impressive and the drumming is syncopated would grant the word
progressive, and the fact that throughout the duration of this
recording Gigan consistently offers extremely aggressive music
grants the word metal. And yeah, the vocals of Randy Piro Jr.
are quite frosty, which of course is metal too.
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