Currency // Castration

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Bart It has that sound of a crust punk band that actually put some money into the production. There is some post-hardcore feel in and out of the songs, but the band seems to flourish most in the chaos. Imagine a more crusty version of Total Chaos with some post-hardcore tendencies. This would kill live. Favorite track: Clock Keeps Crawling.

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1.	Currency 01:12	buy track
2.	Chained to a Gate 01:28	buy track
3.	Cut You Down 01:06	buy track
4.	Clock Keeps Crawling 02:19	buy track
5.	Fog of War 02:11	buy track
6.	The Fix is In 03:27	buy track
7.	Across a Broad Plain 00:44	buy track
8.	Hanging from a Rope 03:20	buy track
9.	Gas of Corruption 00:58	buy track
10.	Success 02:36	buy track
11.	Secret Prison 02:09	buy track
12.	Castration 00:55	buy track

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"If you’ve ever wondered what Catharsis covering The 13th Floor Elevators might sound like, wonder no longer—and that’s only the start!" - Decibel Magazine

GELD make their Relapse Records debut with their third full length, Currency // Castration! The Australian band distills a despairingly hellish vision of the world into a thundering crack to the temple through an unsparing fusion of hardcore’s bleakest violence with metal’s ruthless strength-through-conviction. GELD's abrasive take on the genre is distorted through a lense of fuzzed out psych soundscapes; vocals truly sound like unhinged barks, while guitars, bass, and drums crash against one another frenetically, each track burning brighter and brighter.

Every moment of Currency // Castration is urgent. Tracks such as “Chained to a Gate” edge and scratch at a relief that is ultimately denied, toying with the nightmarish promise of a breakdown that never comes. Elsewhere, "Cut You Down" pulses with frantically itching riffs that stream forth. "Fog of War" snaps and snarls; while "Secret Prison" evinces the honed physique of Japanese hardcore fed through the broken brain of someone on a years-long Rrröööaaarrr-era Voivod spin-out.

Despite the band's innovative approach to the genre, GELD makes no pretensions at being “interesting” for interesting’s sake - As vocalist Al Smith puts it, “One of the most boring things people can do is try to dress up what someone else has already contributed to a genre and make it ‘clever’… We’re more interested in finding our own position” With Currency // Castration, GELD offers no promise of a higher purpose or resolve. Rather, they lean into dissociation, finding truth and meaning in the transcendental joy of simply escaping, surviving, existing.

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released June 9, 2023

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