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Gloomseeker - "The Violet Grim"

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Lee-Eric A beautiful journey into blissful darkness. Favorite track: Down in That Well Quietly Growls the Devil.

nofatclips 2nd listen: Layer after layer of unexpected sonic material will assert their way into your skull through carefully and artfully orchestrated repetition.

1st listen: the songs fully communicate our inadequacy at dealing with sudden yet definitive events such as death. Favorite track: Same Ol' Doom.

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1.	Resonance of Death on a Friday 03:49	buy track
2.	Same Ol' Doom 05:51	buy track
3.	Toothfeeder 05:27	buy track
4.	Down in That Well Quietly Growls the Devil 06:44	buy track
5.	I am the Great Impostor
6.	The Inevitable Drowning of Morena
7.	Bury Me Where It's Pitch Black and Keep Quiet
8.	My Body is a Burden

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Gloomseeker’s sophomore effort is due out on April 9th 2021. The Violet Grim is a journey into pure self introspection and one’s pondering about the fragility of life.

The Violet Grim was created and recorded between 2017 and the present. It is both a follow up and a continuation to the self titled release. The 7 track album takes the listener on a deep tumultuous journey that is constantly marked by feelings of woe, gloom, melancholy and the occasional undertone of hope. The creation of this album is an overall attempt to address the delicate balancing act between our dwindling life and its direct passing into death, essentially reconnecting us with these uncomfortable truths. It is something we all struggle with but this is what nature intended and we must accept it as natural and necessary.

The album’s musical and tonal elements are rooted in post industrial, doomgaze, dark shoegaze and electronic aesthetics. In addition, every track employs some form of layered multi-instrumentation that is constantly being disfigured by distant reverberation. In addition, the song structures are permeated by quiet lows which abruptly transition into distorted highs accompanied by melodic/choral vocals. All of the lyrics on the album were in part influenced by traditional... more
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released April 9, 2021

Mastered by James Plotkin - Plotkinworks
Cover art by Jesse Draxler
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"Gloomseeker deal in depression. Not merely an ample amount of it or a singular concept of it, but rather the variety and shades of depression, both sonically and lyrically. Developing a weathered and industrial shoegaze sound into an instrument all its own, The Violet Grim has a purposeful mission statement, direct from the artist: “an overall attempt to address the delicate balancing act between our dwindling life and its direct passing into death, essentially reconnecting us with these uncomfortable truths.” The Violet Grim, true to its name, is a channeling of those truths.

Gloomseeker first began to channel those truths four years ago with their Gloomseeker’s self-titled release, a debut in which soundscapes of violent apathy and seismic devastation created a unique industrial world that felt at times achingly familiar, like a painful yet distant memory re-lived. It became evident from some of the album’s more enthralling tracks that a potential was taking shape, a direction solidified by a four-year gap and the tumult of the past year.

In stark contrast to prior efforts, some of the most interesting moments on The Violet Grim arrive in cathartic form, the quietest moments on the album speaking the loudest, pushing past its arc of doom and expansive reverb to find solace. Even still these moments, like the end of “Resonance of Death on a Friday Afternoon,” are tinged with a haunting melancholy, that same lingering wound that can’t seem to heal.

Gloomseeker has stated that the album lyrically is “in part influenced by traditional Slavic poems compiled through time.” This folk-like quality bleeds into certain sonic components throughout, yet is never overly pronounced. The lead harmony on “Down in the Well” bears the closest structure to an Eastern European folk song, filtered through layers of dying electronics, somber pianos, and a cavernous percussive suite. That same suite of percussion is some of the most interesting on the album as well, leading the second half of the song into a furious repose with a simple cadence.

From sampled sounds of presumably crushed bones on “I am the Great Impostor” to buried vocals, most of the album is a series of layers, each track offering a further examination of those layers, sometimes completely eclipsing their intent with furious soundscapes that have near infinite expanse. Sometimes, purposeful claustrophobia is the intent, the focus and form of the track. The album’s soundscapes are often littered with a sense of expanse that conveys an impressive ambition. Gloomseeker explore lofty, and ever increasingly melancholy scales, creating something particularly moving in the final two minutes of “The Inevitable Drowning of Morena,” with embellished guitars that tilt into a repeated snare as a cavernous howl shakes the listener’s bones.

Gloomseeker’s penchant for grinding, arrhythmic industrial percussion has carried on from 2017’s self titled throughout all of The Violet Grim. This is perhaps where the influence of artists like Have a Nice Life, and other Flenser alumni is undeniable. Yet, it’s Gloomseeker’s own aptitude for textured grandiosity that helps solidify their identity. The Violet Grim is a bittersweet spectacle of bronze industrial waste, walls of reverb, and a folk tinge that gives it ample character. Working with a mythology wrought from Eastern Europe, its apocalyptic sounds often give way to moments of acceptance and of comfort. A fitting reflection for the past five years". - by Brian Roesler Treblezine.com

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released May 31, 2021

Gloomseeker is a one man doomgaze project with post industrial elements and shoegaze aesthetics. It primarily draws from themes of loneliness, impostor syndromes and wavering human conscience.

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