Kuboa, by GAWTHROP

Kuboa

by GAWTHROP

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Jono Schneider Perfect caveman sludge about how fucked we all are Favorite track: Bulbocapnine.

MKUltra Digging the Corrupted vibes. Never a bad thing when you enter into that realm and with conviction. There's no room for copy cats, but when you're emulating a style of of devastating death/funeral doom in this level of the heavy, mad props.

Crushing stuff. Brava.

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	1.	Bulbocapnine 06:26
	2.	Hogweed 04:35
	3.	Granfalloon 07:10
	4.	Nutria 06:23
	5.	Jumbo 06:13
	6.	Jimmy 04:46
	7.	In Heaven 00:57

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Seoul’s Gawthrop return to reconsign the sub-genre of sludge metal to its most resplendent and burdensome form with their first full-length album “Kuboa”, a monumental death and doom-scarred feedback-worshiping monstrosity that will stomp, crush and flatten the listener to death. The enigmatic South Korean amplifier-torture cult had already given the world a glimpse into their cryptic auditory horror through 2019’s self-titled and 2022’s "Jumbo" demo tapes (both remastered and re-released by Sentient Ruin as the "Deterioration" vinyl LP compilation in 2023), but what awaits the listener on the band's first official full-length offering is something so wretched and crushing that it will test the composure and impressionability of even the most unfazed skeptics. Across its grueling thirty six minutes "Kuboa" unravels a suffocating burial of downtuned auditory nihilism that will leave both die hard fans of sludge/doom and extreme metal enthusiasts in general alike in awe and overcome by the ghastly payload of absolute slow-crawling death they've just been crushed by. The legacy of pillars of the genre like Corrupted, Noothgrush, Coffins, and Meth Drinker lives on through seven epochal and genre-defining slabs of all-devouring subsonic auditory torment that restore sludge/doom to its most iconic and crowning glory.

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released September 19, 2025

Hyunwoong - guitar
Sunggun - guitar, vocals
Minhwi - bass
Owen - drums

All music by Gawthrop, except "In Heaven" by Peter Ivers and David Lynch
Recorded at Studio Cogason, Seoul, February 2022
Mixed by Sunggun Jang
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air
Design and layout by MA

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