Gnaw Their Tongues is an experimental musical project started by Dutch multi-instrumentalist and composer Maurice de Jong, otherwise known as Mories. It was founded in 2004 and produced a debut album in 2006 titled Spit at Me and Wreak Havoc on My Flesh. The output of Gnaw Their Tongues is extensive, with over seventy releases being attributed to its name. The name of the project is taken from passage 16:10-11 from the Book of Revelation: "The fifth angel, who poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds."
Maurice de Jong, known by his moniker Mories, is a Dutch composer and musician. He is best recognized for his multiple music projects, namely Gnaw Their Tongues, Seirom, Aderlating, Cloak of Altering and De Magia Veterum. His compositions are informed by ambient music, black metal, drone music, electronic music and the avant-garde. His interests lie in invoking a disquieting and nightmarish atmosphere with his music, which often utilizes distortion and dissonance. Lauded as a most prolific composer, de Jong has recorded an upwards of three albums per year since 2007.
Collected Atrocities 2005–2008 is a compilation album by Gnaw Their Tongues, released on February 3, 2015 by Crucial Blast. The album comprises three EPs that had previously been issued on CD with several compilation and unreleased tracks.
Spit at Me and Wreak Havoc on My Flesh is the debut full-length studio album of Gnaw Their Tongues, independently released in January 2006.
...Prefering [sic] Human Skin Over Animal Fur... is an EP by Gnaw Their Tongues, released in July 2007 by Epicene Sound Replica. The album would appear in its entirety on the compilation Collected Atrocities 2005–2008, released in 2015.
Deathdrone 3 is a compilation album by Gnaw Their Tongues, independently released in 2007. The album comprises remixed recordings made during 2005 and 2006 that weren't compatible with the music of Spit at Me and Wreak Havoc on My Flesh and Horse Drawn Hearse. The compositions "Nihilism; Tied Up and Burning", "Anhedonia" and "Destroying Is Creating" later appeared on Gnaw Their Tongues' second full-length album Reeking Pained and Shuddering.
Die Mutter wählt das Todtenkleidchen is an EP by Gnaw Their Tongues, released on August 7, 2007 by Corps-Morts Records. The 2009 re-release coupled the album with the EP Dawn Breaks Open Like a Wound That Bleeds Afresh and three additional previously unreleased tracks.
Issei Sagawa is an EP by Gnaw Their Tongues, independently released on August 24, 2007. The album takes its name from Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt in 1981. The music draws more from industrial music than previous work by Gnaw Their Tongues.
Reeking Pained and Shuddering is the second full-length studio album by Gnaw Their Tongues, released on September 8, 2007 by Paradigms Recordings.
Bubonic Burial Rites is an EP by Gnaw Their Tongues, independently released on November 21, 2007.
An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood is the third full-length studio album by Gnaw Their Tongues, released on December 15, 2007 by Burning World and Señor Hernandez Records. It was re-issued in 2008 by Crucial Blast and became Gnaw Their Tongues' first album to be released on Compact Disc in the United States. This allowed for wider distribution and marked the first time the project garnered critical interest, with comparisons being favorably drawn to the music of Napalm Death and Carcass.
For All Slaves a Song of False Hope is an EP by Gnaw Their Tongues, released in September 2008 by Burning World. The title of the track "Aderlating" would serve as the name of de Jong's band. The album would appear in its entirety on the compilation Collected Atrocities 2005–2008, released in 2015.
All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity is the fourth full-length studio album by Gnaw Their Tongues, released on May 10, 2009 by Burning World and Crucial Blast.
Dimlit Hate Cellar is an EP by Gnaw Their Tongues, independently released on January 4, 2010. The album compiles some of Gnaw Their Tongues' earliest recordings.
Tsutomu Miyazaki is an EP by Gnaw Their Tongues, released on March 3, 2010 by Hell Lies in Others. The album takes its name from Tsutomu Miyazaki, a Japanese serial killer who abducted and murdered four young girls. The music is thematically similar to 2007's Issei Sagawa, which was also based on a Japanese criminal.
The Blotched and the Unwanted is a compilation album by Gnaw Their Tongues, released on March 3, 2010 by Hell Lies in Others. The album comprises previously unreleased compositions recorded between 2006 and 2010.
L'arrivée de la terne mort triomphante is the fifth full-length studio album by Gnaw Their Tongues, released on September 7, 2010 by Burning World, Crucial Blast and Candlelight Records. The album showcased a change in musical direction, with more emphasis on orchestration and lighter moods. The album also marked the last time Maurice de Jong recorded a Gnaw Their Tongues album using his old studio and computer setup. It received high marks from music critics, with PopMatters ranking it as one of the greatest heavy metal albums of the year.
Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus is the sixth full-length studio album by Gnaw Their Tongues, released on November 8, 2011 by Crucial Blast. The album saw a return to the more direct and aggressive sound of Gnaw Their Tongues' earlier work, which contrasts the more polished and lighter toned L'arrivée de la terne mort triomphante released the previous year.
Eschatological Scatology is the seventh full-length studio album by Gnaw Their Tongues, independently released on June 6, 2012.
Sulfur is an EP by Dutch experimental music group Gnaw Their Tongues, independently released on February 20, 2013. The music centers around the theme of World War I and the album artwork is a photograph depicting three Canadian soldiers wounded by mustard gas.
