Genghis Tron 'Dead Mountain Mouth' album

Dead Mountain Mouth is the wickedly anticipated full length album from Genghis Tron, and the follow-up to their imaginative debut EP, Cloak Of Love. Recorded at Godcity Studios with Kurt Ballou (Converge), Dead Mountain Mouth moves beyond the rapid-fire electro/grind genre-splicing of their debut EP, and forms something more fluid and cohesive, an arcane union of digital dreams and brutal heaviness, where speedcore eruptions blossom from clouds maximum beat-driven electronic bliss, and futuristic metal riffage seethes from your speakers. These ten gloriously-dense and triumphantly catchy jams soar through valleys of immense crush and alien vistas of 8-bit wizardry unlike anything you've heard before... As the genre-splicing creativity bomb of 2005's Clock of Love EP continues to build Genghis Tron's reputation as one of heavy music's most exciting bands, the Poughkeepsie, NY trio is preparing to unleash their ferocious and unnervingly innovative first full-length. Recorded by Kurt Ballou of Converge, Dead Mountain Mouth plays on the same disjunctive metal and electronic elements that made Cloak of Love so intriguing, while undoubtedly solidifying the band's sound into a fluid and chaosriddled monster.

Review from INDIEWORKSHOP:
It's been a while since an album has genuinely kicked my ass. And I don't mean that as some sort of silly euphemism. I don't mean that I was in awe of its glorious melodies, or that there were songs that took my breath away. I'm not talking about some fairytale esc moment where the album reveled its glory to me and I bathed in the white glow of its magnificence.
No. I'm talking about being physically accosted, beaten and bruised. I'm talking about having my head caved in and my insides strewn about my living room. The short version of this review would be; Dead Mountain Mouth is a brutal album. Hot on the heels of their well received Cloak of Love EP (released last year), this trio of Poughkeepsie boys are back with a Kurt Ballou produced explosion of talent and creativity. It's becoming increasingly rare for a metal band to make you audibly say "wow" when you listen to them. It's also becoming frighteningly rare for a metal band to create something unique, something new and fresh. Almost everything within both the metal scene and hardcore can be directly pinned on some band from five years previous.

Genghis Tron step out from the typical modes and blow the doors off of what you'd expect from a metal band in this day in age. Three guys, some guitars, keyboards, and a computer. That's all they really need. Genres be damned, as they crank out some blistering Naked City-esc face melting and follow it up with some cascading Isis doom-fest. It's chaotic, off balance, and perfectly crafted.

Each time I listen to Dead Mountain Mouth I have a new favorite track. First few times it was the opening riff fest of "The Folding Road". Then the shred-tastic title track took the top spot, then the creepy, industrial sounds of "White Walls". I'm figuring at some point that each track will have a share of the top spot in my mind. I've always loved metal, I've always loved intense and chaotic music. But to be honest, the last few years haven't really been that good to me. I've been bored with a lot of what I've heard; feeling like most of it was just re-hashed riffs from albums I've been enjoying for years. There were a few glimmers of hope (I mean, everyone loves Jesu), but for the most part I've been under whelmed with what metal has had to offer for the last five or so years. I mean, when kids think what they are buy from Hot Topic is metal… well, we know we have a problem. But Genghis Tron has made a spectacular full length, giving me hope that the creative and forward thinking metal I grew up on isn't dead.
I said it before, and I'm about to say it again; Dead Mountain Mouth is a brutal album.

Review from LUNAR HYPNOSIS Webzine, written by Don Anderson of Agalloch:
"Following their brief Cloak of Love EP released last year, Genghis Tron return with their anticipated full-length Dead Mountain Mouth. Having been hooked on the trio since their EP and having reviewed it here [hyperlink], I was interested in seeing what the band would do on a sustained project.

Cloak of Love was lauded as another fine genre-hopping recording, but Ive always felt there was something different about Genghis Tron. They werent just another Naked City or Secret Chiefs 3. I never once felt the genres they crossed were for a gimmick or to display technical prowess. They truly seemed to have constructed their own genre all together. The listener will find a more focused and heavier Genghis Tron on Dead Mountain Mouth. The group has further perfected their grindtronica sound. The drum programming is erratic, eclectic, and creative. Moving between the electronica stylings of Aphex Twin (the introduction to Warm Woods would not be out of place on the Richard D. James album) and the blast beats of early Napalm Death, the brilliant programming never once seems out of touch with the guitar work. It is the precise and delicate dialectic between the programming and the guitars that pushes Genghis Tron into Cynic-Jazz-Death-like territory.

Now, I have made sure I am not the only one to hear a Cynic influence in the groups music (just listen to the intervallic relationships in the melody a minute into the title track) as Ive had other people confirm this. It is at these moments that Genghis Tron seem so situated within the Florida Jazz-Death scene and it is at such moments where they are at their most melodic and catchy. There is a definite heaviness to this album that was absent from Cloak of Love. The group find themselves at their most crushing and emotional around the two minute mark of White Walls. During this passage the guitars are monolithic with minor chords in the style of something off of Isis Oceanic record. Nonetheless, it isnt much longer into the track when the music breaks down into sparse synthesizers and glitch like programming over a driving drum loop. Genghis Tron are one of the most interesting groups currently working. Dead Mountain Mouth has not only developed but has exploded the musical vocabulary the trio uncovered on their EP. Some groups contribute to the language of a particular genre of music while others write their own language and in turn become true iconoclasts.
Genghis Tron are of the latter. The trio of Mookie, Michael, and Hamilton are a group to watch because they are making music no one has heard yet."

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Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth