BCK
051
Plebeian Grandstand
Lowgazers
∟ CASSETTE
∟ DIGITAL
Four years after How Hate Is Hard To Define and a pair of splits, here’s the long-awaited second full-length from Toulouse, France’s Plebeian Grandstand. Lowgazers marks another impressive step in the band’s quest of total aural devastation : armed with new drummer Ivo (Stuntman, PAL…), the four-piece picks the most dissonant and experimental aspects of black metal, hardcore and sludge to create an unreal vortex of desolation. From the first notes of Thrvst, the band reaches new heights of intensity, switching from inhuman blast beats to slow-motion torture, while unorthodox guitar work and painfully shrieked vocals tear the listener from all quarters. Recorded and mixed by Amaury Sauvé (Birds In Row, Calvaiire, Death Engine…) then mastered at New Alliance East (Converge, Gaza, Xasthur), Lowgazers’s sounds commensurate to the band’s vision, being a ruthless demonstration of power as well as an untouchable pinnacle in extreme music hybridization.
– Throatruiner
recorded and mixed in January 2014 by Amaury Sauvé at La Senelle studio / mastered at New Alliance East Mastering in February 2014 / artwork by Adrien Broué /
- 1. Thrvst
- 2. Endless Craving
- 3. Flail In The Bliss
- 4. Lowlifer
- 5. Relief Of Troth
- 6. Svn In Your Head
- 7. Aimless Roaming
- 8. Mvrk Diving
LIMITED CASSETTE EDITION
66 copies / Black C-50
Digital edition included.