DEATH BY GONG are a new band featuring Jobst M. Feit (RADARE), Peter Voigtmann (SHRVL / ex-THE OCEAN) and Chris Breuer (ZAHN, HEADS.). DESCALATOR is driven by a tension of heavyness and vulnerability, fusing the epic sound of FAILURE or TORCHE with the soft vocal delivery and song craftsmanship of ELLIOTT SMITH, shoegaze guitar clouds in the vein of MY BLOODY VALENTINE and synthetic textures that could be penned by Geoff Barrow (PORTISHEAD, BEAK). A sonic exploration of human decline in all its facets.
The soft vocals delivering their message amidst a din of almost claustrophobia-inducing intensity. Musically it shakes you to the core but the mood like the title suggests is that of a distant removed narrator driving out into the blackness the white lines of the freeway a liberation tinged by the fading red glow of a tired sleeping city. – Everything Is Noise
