GODHUNTER City Of Dust [CD]

GODHUNTER has finally released their crushing debut full-length release, City Of Dust. While the brutalizing Tucson-based sludgecore quintet has amassed a plethora of independent recordings since their late 2009 inception-- including several split vinyl releases, and their lauded 2011 Wolves EP -- City Of Dust marks the band’s first official LP. The band already bears an undeniable kinship to goliaths Noothgrush, Weedeater, Bongzilla and Sourvein, yet the sprawling LP shows the band exploring even more depth, with more sonically-destructive tones, more diverse, melodic song structures and even acoustic strings and gravelly, clean vocal segments atop the sun-baked bed of earthmoving roared vocals and gang chants. More than simply a collection of songs amassed for the purpose of releasing an album, City Of Dust presents a fully conceptual statement, lyrically delivering a political by-the-throat theme which unravels through the bitter finale. The album’s eight anthems engulf exactly fifty minutes of brand new material, recorded with trusted cohort Ryan Butler (Landmine Marathon, Unruh) at his Arcane Digital Studios (Exhumed, Misery Index), where GODHUNTER’s Wolves EP also came to fruition. City Of Dust has been released cooperatively between the band’s own Battleground Records and Earsplit's label, The Compound. A deluxe vinyl edition is also in the works. In the meantime, this CD version comes in a brilliant desert-rose digipak made of eco-friendly components. [The Compound/Battleground]