The Story
"If youāve ever wondered what Catharsis covering The 13th Floor Elevators might sound like, wonder no longerāand thatās only the start!" - Decibel Magazine
GELD make their Relapse Records debut with their third full length,Ā Currency // Castration! The Australian band distills a despairingly hellish vision of the world into a thundering crack to the temple through an unsparing fusion of hardcoreās bleakest violence with metalās ruthless strength-through-conviction.Ā GELD'sĀ abrasive take on the genre is distorted through a lense of fuzzed out psych soundscapes; vocals truly sound like unhinged barks, while guitars, bass, and drums crash against one another frenetically, each track burning brighter and brighter.
Every moment of Currency // CastrationĀ is urgent. Tracks such as āChained to a Gateā edge and scratch at a relief that is ultimately denied, toying with the nightmarish promise of a breakdown that never comes. Elsewhere, "Cut You Down" pulses with frantically itching riffs that stream forth. "Fog of War" snaps and snarls; while "Secret Prison"Ā evinces the honed physique of Japanese hardcore fed through the broken brain of someone on a years-long Rrrƶƶƶaaarrr-era Voivod spin-out.
Despite the band's innovative approach to the genre,Ā GELDĀ makes no pretensions at being āinterestingā for interestingās sake - As vocalist Al Smith puts it, āOne of the most boring things people can do is try to dress up what someone else has already contributed to a genre and make it ācleverāā¦ Weāre more interested in finding our own position.āĀ Ā WithĀ Currency // Castration,Ā GELDĀ offers no promise of a higher purpose or resolve. Rather, they lean into dissociation, finding truth and meaning in the transcendental joy of simply escaping, surviving, existing.
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"If youāve ever wondered what Catharsis covering The 13th Floor Elevators might sound like, wonder no longerāand thatās only the start!" - Decibel Magazine
GELD make their Relapse Records debut with their third full length,Ā Currency // Castration! The Australian band distills a despairingly hellish vision of the world into a thundering crack to the temple through an unsparing fusion of hardcoreās bleakest violence with metalās ruthless strength-through-conviction.Ā GELD'sĀ abrasive take on the genre is distorted through a lense of fuzzed out psych soundscapes; vocals truly sound like unhinged barks, while guitars, bass, and drums crash against one another frenetically, each track burning brighter and brighter.
Every moment of Currency // CastrationĀ is urgent. Tracks such as āChained to a Gateā edge and scratch at a relief that is ultimately denied, toying with the nightmarish promise of a breakdown that never comes. Elsewhere, "Cut You Down" pulses with frantically itching riffs that stream forth. "Fog of War" snaps and snarls; while "Secret Prison"Ā evinces the honed physique of Japanese hardcore fed through the broken brain of someone on a years-long Rrrƶƶƶaaarrr-era Voivod spin-out.
Despite the band's innovative approach to the genre,Ā GELDĀ makes no pretensions at being āinterestingā for interestingās sake - As vocalist Al Smith puts it, āOne of the most boring things people can do is try to dress up what someone else has already contributed to a genre and make it ācleverāā¦ Weāre more interested in finding our own position.āĀ Ā WithĀ Currency // Castration,Ā GELDĀ offers no promise of a higher purpose or resolve. Rather, they lean into dissociation, finding truth and meaning in the transcendental joy of simply escaping, surviving, existing.
