Gullotine A.D. are a death metal band hailing from Georgia, USA and Born To Fall is their second album, released on 24/06/2022.
The band was originally formed in 2003 by brothers Adam and Lance Miller, who had grown up on 70’s hard rock legends but who really cut their teeth on bands such as Lamb of God and Shadows Fall.
Life meant the band had to take a decade long break, but they reformed in 2015 with drummer, Evan Posey, and they took inspiration from classic death metal bands such as Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under and mixed it with the New Orleans sludge of Crowbar and Eyehategod and the Scandinavian black metal of Mayhem and early Enslaved, to create their own, unique sound.
Their website states they wanted “to sound like if Obituary moved to New Orleans and tried to play down-tuned versions of Satyricon songs.”
The band are signed to M-Theory Audio.
The album is well-written with planned and controlled song writing. There is a raw, edginess that makes the album heavy but not heavy just for the sake of it.
The vocals are unclean and throaty, trademark death metal vocals, but melodic so the actual lyrics can actually still be understood. You will have to ask the band if this is a good thing or not!
Death metal is not really my thing, but I do like the melodicness (if that’s a word!) of this album. With its rumbling bass, galloping drums and pounding guitars, this album chugs along, doomy yet cutting, melodic but heavy and it would definitely still be classed as an extreme metal album, the vocals having a black/death metal tone to them.
The album’s cover was painted by Eliran Kantor, a Berlin-based artist who has created Goya-esque art for dozens of metal bands including Testament, Venom Prison, Soulfly, Loudblast and Helloween and perfectly captures the themes of the song lyrics.
A mixture of doom, sludge, death and black metal this album seems to have it all and its appeal should reach out to many people, not just death metal fans.
But please don’t take my word for it. Go and get yourself a copy and see for yourself. I don’t think you will be disappointed. I have listened to it through a few times now and it is certainly growing on me the more I hear it.
Go on, treat yourself! You know you want to \m/
TRACK LISTING
- Vultures of Paradise
- Exile
- War First
- Spiritual Insect
- I Want to Believe
- Born To Fall
- Hammer
- Madness Of The Gods
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