Gezoleen – Black Space Between Stars CD

Gezoleen – Black Space Between Stars CD

"Black hole of musical murder.

From the onset of the first track, "The Pillow Over Face Corporation," you know your nerves and aural faculties are going to be grated like bricks of cheese in an Italian restaurant. Even when said track is presented in that muted, static-y radio style, the screech of something resembling a guitar and the sub-atomic pulsating of the bass shines through loud and clear. 

And when the man behind this one-man excursion into the grey area between white noise and music mimicking the sound of eleven tractor-trailers grinding on a hairpin turn guard rail, it hits you that much harder. Gezoleen approximates and summarizes many sound scenarios: what it would sound like if Jim (Foetus) Thirwell interpreted Big Black with guitars and Chinese fireworks;being pushed off the edge of a fiery volcano by James Plotkin; the Swans doing an on-line mash up of Neubaten's "Autobahn" and Neurosis' "Pain Of Mind"; the guy from Naglfar taking a volley of buckshot to the chin; an intestine-collapsing caboodle of thrashcore riffs through the rusty and dusty distortion pedal Mike Patton once ran his vocals through. Black Spaces Between Stars is as damaging as it is frightening; life-affirming as it is destructive and engaging as it is repulsing." - KEVIN STEWART-PANKO / Decibel