As “This Face” is leaked, bloggers start responding. Look for an official review in the next Alternative Press and an interview with Alan Dubin in the most recent “Rock-a-Rolla” magazine and an upcoming issue of the Village Voice.
“One of the sickest and most twisted albums to be EVER recorded!!!”
Gnaw did deliver us a pioneering work of art which is essential for people who like it harsh and uneasy and are not afraid to try something new. “This Face” is a recommendation to take seriously.
Listening to “this face” you quickly realize that those who have gathered here to destroy acres and acres of musical landscape are not new to this, have their own crafted taste in musical extremities and aren’t afraid to go the whole way. Because this is probably the musically most extreme record you will have heard in a long time that at the same time keeps a small remnant of tradition.
It is extreme, experimental and sonically unpleasant. This Face is sonic masochism on the part of its creators; an album that practically dares you to listen… Broken glass gone audio. The feedback and bass booms… feel like they’re cutting out my eyes…, [it's] packed with dense layers of cruelty and a hate that seethes, making even the blackest of the black metal look corny and lightweight by comparison.
I’m listening to it as I type and I can actually feel it removing vitamins from my system, dissolving my teeth and replacing my blood with piss. Not exactly the best way to spend a Sunday hangover but I’m a slave to this stuff.
Vampster, so much for the translation, but:
“This Face” is proof that no one else so haunting texts to write. …Mastered to perfection, is this work and others will hopefully follow some like nothing more than a great start for the friends of aural torture and masochists general. This U.S. group is currently only offers the soundtrack to your true self.