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Known as one of the most technical death metal bands ever, Gorguts was formed in 1989 by Luc Lemay (guitar/vocals), Sylvain Marcoux (guitar), Eric Giguere (bass) and Stephane Provencher (drums). They recorded a demo in 1990 entitled “And Then Comes Lividity”, and then in 1991 released “Considered Dead” on Roadrunner, their first full length of death metal. The release was very promising, and even included a guest guitar solo by James Murphy and guest vocals by Chris Barnes. Two years later in 1993, they released their second full length entitled “The Erosion of Sanity”. Similar in style to their debut, this album had showed Gorguts had indeed developed in musicianship. However, this album was overlooked and became an unheard classic for many years.

The band fell silent for five years. Many assumed Gorguts was no more, until 1998 when Luc Lemay assembled a new lineup and unleashed “Obscura”, which many will agree is the most technical, chaotic and downright lucid metal album ever recorded. Filled with irregular beats, discordant riffing, and complex song arrangements, “Obscura” turned out to be either indigestible by many, or seen for its true beauty by few. Three years later, Gorguts returned once again with “From Wisdom To Hate”. Some consider this release to be a digression from “Obscura”, but it was still much in the same avant-garde/technical vein. Dan Mongrain of Martyr was recruited for the second guitarist on this album, contributing to the writing process and lead guitar work as well.

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Top Tracks

1	Obscura	182
2	Earthly Love	150
3	The Carnal State	148
4	Nostalgia	140
5	Clouded	116
6	Subtle Body	115
7	The Art of Sombre Ecstasy	109
8	Faceless Ones	99
8	Rapturous Grief	99
10	Illuminatus	87
11	Sweet Silence	86
11	The Erosion of Sanity	86
13	With Their Flesh, He'll Create	81
14	Orphans of Sickness	79
15	Inverted	78

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godlikeambience wrote:
12 hours ago

From Wisdom to Hate is also fantastic. The title track is actually one of my favorite Gorguts songs.

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_Emperor_ wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

EROSION OF SANITY all the 'effin way!

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GhostofSanity wrote:
Tuesday morning

Oh noez.

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Caliban51 wrote:
Tuesday morning

god what's wrong with me. i'm liking FWtH more than Obscura lately.

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vargr_moon wrote:
Monday morning

EROSION OF SANITY FTW!!!!!!!!!!!

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rapture999 wrote:
last week

YES DADDY

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nullpunkt wrote:
last week

Wow, I'm totally new to this band, although I heard the name before, and ..... yeah yeah yeah!!! It's like a fucking wet dream!!! It's like everything I ever loved came together: the energy and physical violence of metal with the discordant riffing of math rock... Holy shit, how I love this. Gotta check me a copy by any means.

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liebfrei wrote:
last week

i was 11. it's the same year i started to listen to music... remember like it was yesterday, watching "The Philosopher" of Death in MTV late at night while waiting for Beavis & Butthead to start.

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rafi2600 wrote:
last week

Crazy ! ..but i still prefer Martyr in this genre.. ..it is quite the same family : -) riffing there is at top level in death metal genre. Obscura is a real masterpiece !

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Radicalation wrote:
13 days ago

I was 5. :D

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baltech22 wrote:
14 days ago

haha. youngins

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godlikeambience wrote:
14 days ago

I'm pretty sure I was 9 years old when the album came out.

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baltech22 wrote:
14 days ago

lulz @ people not getting Obscura when it was still in print. n00bs

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godlikeambience wrote:
15 days ago

I only paid about $60 US for my copy of Obscura, but it wasn't exactly like new. Only a couple scratches though, other than that it was almost completely mint. Probably the most I've ever spent on a single CD but it was absolutely worth it.

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16 days ago

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_Emperor_ wrote:
16 days ago

Obscura is just out of control. A rampant, ever increasing sphere of chaos.

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KwazyKat wrote:
17 days ago

Lovely.

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Caliban51 wrote:
18 days ago

I support the artists that I can support, Gorguts would be part of them if it was still possible, trust me. And no, your english doesn't suck. I'm french as well and I used to make that one mistake all the goddamn time.

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MetalHead1200 wrote:
20 days ago

Put simply, this is the best song I've ever heard: http://www.last.fm/music/Behold+the+Amphibian/_/Honorificabilitudinitatibus

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Taxes wrote:
20 days ago

My English sucks, that's a given. I still think that, with the advent of the internet, supporting speculators over the actual artists is retarded, but whatever.

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