Gnaw, Earthen Grave – featuring Ron Holzner from doom legends TROUBLE and virtuoso violinist Rachel Barton Pine , and Iron Man, Saturday, December 05th, 2009, Europa. It’s a fairly early show as they clear the club promptly at 10pm to get the dance party underway. Expect Gnaw onstage at 9PM.
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Again, Gnaw will be performing this Saturday, 11/14. The third annual Apex Noise Festival will now take place at S.I.R., at 520 West 25th street in Manhattan. Gnaw will begin promptly at 9pm and perform for a half hour. The other acts are listed below. The fest cost $25 per day or $40 for both. Support Arts and Music in NYC.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13
DOORS 7PM
(DJ)TENEBRE 7-7.30PM
(DJ)WINTERMUTE 7.30-8PM
STATIQBLOOM 8-8.30PM
CHAOS MAJIK 8.30-9PM
THEOLOGIAN 9-9.30PM
(DJ)ISADORA 9.30-10AM
(DJ)JAMES PLOTKIN 10-10.30PM
RISE OF BECAUSE 10.30-11PM
THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM 11-11.30PM
HECATE 11.30-12AM
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14
DOORS 4PM
(DJ) LEECH 4-4.30PM
(DJ) SEAN RAGON 4.30-5PM
THE BIRD CAGE THEATER 5-5.30PM
THE VOMIT ARSONIST 5.30-6PM
XIPHOID DEMENTIA 6-6.30PM
COREPHALLISM 6.30-7PM
SEWER GODDESS 7-7.30PM
T-FAKTOR 7.30-8PM
(DJ) DARRYL HELL 8-8.30PM
(DJ) CHRONIC YOUTH 8.30-9PM
GNAW 9-9.40PM
UNEARTHLY TRANCE 9.40-10.20PM
ADERLATING 10.20-11PM
STROM.EC 11PM-12AM
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13
HECATE 12-1AM
(DJ) TENEBRE 11.45-12AM
THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM 11-11.45PM
(DJ) JAMES PLOTKIN 10.30-11PM
RISE OF BECAUSE 10-10.30PM
(DJ) THE BLACK OIL 9.30-10PM
APHELION 9-9.30PM
(DJ) WINTERMUTE 8.30-9PM
CHAOS MAJIK 8-8.30PM
THE BIRD CAGE THEATER 7.30-8PM
(DJ) ISADORA 7-7.30PM
DOORS 7PM
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14
STROM.EC 11.30PM-12.30AM
ADERLATING 10.30-11.30PM
(DJ) TENEBRE 10.15-10.30PM
UNEARTHLY TRANCE 9.15-10.15PM
GNAW 8.30-9.15PM
T-FAKTOR 8-8.30PM
(DJ) DARRYL HELL 7.30-8PM
(DJ) CHRONIC YOUTH 7-7.30PM
[INTERMISSION]
SEWER GODDESS 6.30-7PM
COREPHALLISM 6-6.30PM
XIPHOID DEMENTIA 5.30-6PM
THE VOMIT ARSONIST 5-5.30PM
STATIQBLOOM 4.30-5PM
(DJ) LEECH & TENEBRE 4-4.30PM
DOORS 4PM
Help support music and arts in NYC.
Help support New York’s almost non existing avante music scene. In a rare Manhattan showing, Gnaw will perform on day 2 of the 3rd annual APEX fest. Gnaw will perform Saturday November 14th at 8:30pm.
In a bizarre turn, the scheduled Gnaw show tomorrow at the Knitting Factory has become a Happy Hour of sorts. That means your favorite avante-doom-noise-rock band will perform concisely and stick to the point before the sun sets. There will be no better way to kick off your weekend. Again, it’s early so we all run the risk of missing it. Here are the details:
-GNAW
-7:30 pm performance, 30 minute set.
- Friday, September 25th
-The brand new Knitting Factory** (formerly the old Luna Lounge, formerly the new Luna Lounge):
**located at 361 Metropolitan Avenue – Williamsburg – Brooklyn
http://ny.knittingfactory.com/about.php
**do not listen to google, mapquest, etc who still indicate the Knitting Factory address at 74 Leonard Street.
Here’s a list of all bands and showtimes for the night’s performance:
7:30 – 8:00 Gnaw
8:15 – 8:45 OvO
9:00 – 9:30 SubArachnoid Space
9:45 – 10:15 Child Abuse
“Everyone gets kicked out of the joint before 11 pm to make way for John Zorn’s Painkiller….no, no just kidding….everyone gets kicked out at 11 pm to make way for DJ sets. Come early and get in bed drunk by midnight.” – Neuser
GNAW – Live – September 6th, Public Assembly, Williamsburg Brooklyn.
An industrial black metal mindset laden with despair propels the malignant madness audible from Gnaw’s debut nine-track affair THIS FACE. This unconventional quintet (featuring members from avant garde metal troupes Khanate and Burning Witch) unloads an hateful assortment of non-linear noise rock, soul crushing doom, and exploratory electronics to create an eccentric and possessed sonic explosion. Led by a vocalist whose screeching rage fuels insanity (”Backyard Frontier”) while the band’s two bold sound designers create a cacophony of sound by implementing barrages of haunting feedback and gloomy overlays (”Ghosted,” “Talking Mirrors”), this unsettling endeavor emits an apocalyptic feel of being caught in the middle of the world crumbling down. www.conspiracyrecords.com -Mike SOS
“This Face”, is not nice at all – in fact it is so intense that its 50 minutes are hard to take in in one sitting. Dubin’s signature vocals – that hoarse screaming known from Khanate – rule Gnaw’s sound, but there are quieter passages as well, in which he actually sings. What sets “This Face” apart from Khanate and the majority of doom and metal acts running at the moment, however, is the highly unusual inclusion of electronics into their tracks’ arrangements. “Vacant” juxtaposes Dubin’s vocals, abrasive guitars and twisted electronics to mind-bending effect. Elsewhere, the group lose their sense of direction somewhat: “Feelers” still has all the elements mentioned but they don’t really add up but remain isolated. And the tipsy-turvy doodling of “Watcher” is full of effects, which makes it unusual but also strangely disengaging: As a composition, it remains rather pointless. That said, such might be the price to pay when operating beyond the ordinary. Ultimately, “This Face” is an album that commands respect but is difficult to love. 7/10 – Jan-Arne Sohns (16 June, 2009)
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=4439
A product of accumulation and intuition, This Face is a confounding and ravaged creation, disseminating a series of clinically vindictive compositions that are as much a product of contemporary soundtrack innovation as they are from the visceral, body-centric screeds of industrial music. The harrowing rigour and tenacity at the core of This Face is a forbidding psychological territory, with Gnaw as its cruel masters.
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Are you willing to push the limits of you musical palette? If you said yes, Gnaw’s debut album will be a release that you will listen to time and time again in an attempt to figure out what hidden meanings lie beneath its harsh, violent exterior. Even listeners who have experienced quite a number of noise artists will find that Alan Dubin and the rest of his band have a unique way of doing things that separates them from the rest. But one thing is for sure, Gnaw is off to an intriguing start and considering how many different elements are present it will be exciting to see just where the group chooses to go from here.
Gnaw is an aurally terrifying display of dissonance, yet is not without rhyme or reason. Once again, it’s all relative though, isn’t it? …the noise terrorism takes several different forms, none of which are soothing to the ears or conducive to anger management. However, through all the electronic-laced, feedback drenched, and tribally percussive clutter and clatter, This Face offers memorable moments…
[Gnaw] provides more grist for the gore mill than most could cope with. Haven Vault is howling white noise and harsh blackened vocals but the centerpiece is “Feelers”, whose remorselessly increasing bpm could drive a sensitive person to tears. Horrifically effective. [8/10]
Gnaw’s relentless rhythmic grind, almost psycjedelic in its use of infinite shades of grey, emphasizes the oppressive crush of city-dwelling. They perceive the metropolis as a vast mincing machine, the meatpacking district expanding to consume and process the entirety of the five boroughs. So-called “extreme music” often posits an idea of Hell; Gnaw deal only in the most nightmarish, man-made variety.
Couldn’t tell you what it says, but it’s probably pretty terrifying.
See the latest Show No Mercy column, about half way down the page.
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