All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity

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All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 10, 2009 (2009-05-10)
Recorded2008 (2008) – 2009 (2009)
StudioDe Bejaarde, Drachten, NL
Genre Dark ambient, industrial, noise
Length82:12
Label Burning World/Crucial Blast
Gnaw Their Tongues chronology
Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts
(2009)
All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
(2009)
Dimlit Hate Cellar
(2010)
Maurice de Jong chronology
Rend Each Other Like Wild Beasts
(2009)
All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
(2009)
Dimlit Hate Cellar
(2010)

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. [1] [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Music journalist Ned Raggett wrote a mixed to positive review, describing the album as "dreadfully magnificent in its arrangements of sheer sonic overload, sculpted to be an opera-of-sorts in a black pit" and concluded that "it's a well-done, if off-putting, approach." [3] Noel Gardner of The Quietus compared the music favorably to the bludgeoning sound of Khanate and Swans and said "the amount of ground Gnaw Their Tongues covers, while achieving a certain stubborn musical inertia, is truly impressive." [4]

Track listing

All music is composed by Maurice de Jong.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."My Orifices Await Ravaging"7:12
2."Verbrennt und Verflucht"6:00
3."Broken Fingers Point Upwards in Vain"7:26
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."The Stench of Dead Horses on My Breath and the Vile of Existence in My Hands"6:48
2."L'ange qui annonce la fin du temps"6:14
3."Gazing at Me Through Tears of Urine"5:04
Side three
No.TitleLength
1."Rife with Deep Teeth Marks"8:17
2."All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity"7:52
3."The Gnostic Ritual Consumption of Semen As Embodiment of Wounds Teared in the Soul"7:15
Side four
No.TitleLength
1."Thee, I Invoke, Akephalou"6:42
2."I Hear Only the Clanking of the Scythe"6:25
3."A Promise of Revenge Whispered from Stitched Lips"7:07
CD edition track listing
No.TitleLength
1."My Orifices Await Ravaging"7:12
2."Verbrennt und Verflucht"6:00
3."Broken Fingers Point Upwards in Vain"7:26
4."The Stench of Dead Horses on My Breath and the Vile of Existence in My Hands"6:48
5."L'ange qui annonce la fin du temps"6:14
6."Gazing at Me Through Tears of Urine"5:04
7."Rife with Deep Teeth Marks"8:17
8."All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity"7:52
9."The Gnostic Ritual Consumption of Semen As Embodiment of Wounds Teared in the Soul"7:15

Personnel

Adapted from the All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity liner notes. [5]

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
Netherlands 2009Burning World LP BWR007
United States Crucial Blast CD CBR78

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References

  1. de Jong, Maurice (2011). "Releases: 2009". devotionalhymns.com. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  2. Nunziata, Francesco (November 9, 2009). "Gnaw Their Tongues: All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity" (in Italian). Onda Rock. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Raggett, Ned. "Gnaw Their Tongues: All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  4. Gardner, Noel (December 8, 2009). "Gnaw Their Tongues: All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity". The Quietus . Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  5. All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity (booklet). Gnaw Their Tongues. Hagerstown, Maryland: Crucial Blast. 2009.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)