### Gorement: Darkness of the dead

#### 07/12/10 || Daemonomania

Gorement looks to be one of a billion Swedeathers from the 90’s who had some good tunes, changed styles here and there to try and fit in, but never really rode the Gravewave to international stardom and eternal blowjob heaven. The fun of these bands is that you can buy their shit and act kvlt as fuck. When some metalhead is all up in your face and shit, throwing up their set and rappin’:

“Yo, dawg, your bitch ass gotta hear the classicks like “And the laughter has died”, G!”

Well, that’s when you bust out some karate shit, breakdance, and then cap ‘em in the domepiece with a AK while yelling:

“Fuck y’all son, I gots them GOREMENT demos beanpole!”*

Trust me, they will never recover. Another great thing to do with relatively obscure bands is to praise them as being the best thing since the crucifixion. Sure, they may not have REALLY had what it took to be huge, but since you have 1 of 28 cassette copies in existence of their A.D. 269 two-track fuzzfest – totally captivating greatest songs evaaaaaargh.

Kvltiness aside, Gorement is an interesting little time capsule of Scandinavian DM trends. By putting all their shit on one poorly ordered compilation, you can hear how the band morphed from a stomping grind-distorted-vocal beast to a more refined, death-doom influenced bucha poofs. Not really poofy, just more keyboards and acoustic sections. Probably listened to some old Katatonia. Certainly incorporates a dose of “You’ll never see” with better solos. Needless to say that gets the Daemonizer at full, erect attention.

Supposedly Bloodbath got some inspiriation from these morbid youths (including the logo), and you’ll have to make it to the earlier material further in to see why. Songs from the “Human relic” and “Obsequies” demos are heaving, nasty, and sound like a caveman performing primitive dental surgery upon a shoggoth. Brutal in every sense of the word. I’m assuming that’s where Mike and the gang got their cues.

If you feel the urge to obsessively compile everything from one of metal’s most gloriously fantastic subgenres, go ahead and pick up “Darkness of the dead”. There’s plenty of pleasing platters concerning darkness, shadows, silence, and other such somber topics. Dig in. The songwriting may wander a bit, but overall every song has a redeeming quality or two. Funny liner notes as well. While whoever ordered the tracks completely failed, Dark Lord bless ‘em for letting the rest of us into the Tower of Kvlt.

*The only reason for da slang is that the cover dude looks like one of the robbers from Dead Presidents. Never should have done the crime, bro, now you’re sentenced to an eternity in Swedeath hell.

- Information
- Released: 2001
- Label: Necroharmonic/Morbid Wrath
- Website: Gorement MySpace
- Band
- Jimmy Karlsson, Mikael Bergström: vocals
- Daniel Eriksson, Patrik Fernlund: guitars
- Nicklas Lilja: bass
- Robin Bergh, Mattias Berglund: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. My Ending Quest
- 02. Vale Of Tears
- 03. Human Relic
- 04. The Memorial
- 05. The Lost Breed
- 06. Silent Hymn (For the Dead)
- 07. Sea Of Silence
- 08. Obsequies Of Mankind
- 09. Darkness Of The Dead
- 10. Into Shadows
- 11. Intro/Darkness Of The Dead
- 12. Human Relic
- 13. Moulder Within
- 14. Intro/Process Of Cent
- 15. Gruesome Modification Of Form
- 16. Obsequies Of Mankind
- 17. The Memorial
- 18. Into Shadows
- 19. Profound Harmony