You can purchase our last release 'Lesser Traveled Waters' at CDbaby.com!We are currently in the studio finishing new material! New 2008 PROMO featuring three songs from our upcoming release will be available March 21, 2008! Listen to the first three tracks on our profile. The full new album is expected late summer 2008!
Video "Cross Pollenation" Featuring - D Randall Blythe from Lamb of God
REVIEWS:
“Super-ultra-mega complex in structure and style, this one takes a few listens to grasp but once it takes root, may never grow old. Equally as tortured and biomechanical as it is free-flowing and organic…rapes ears with a low-end gut-punch that’s almost entirely instrumental outside of its haunting samples and guest appearances (Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe appears on the bludgeoning “Cross-Pollenation†and Weedeater frontman Dave ‘Dixie’ Collins sings on “Tears for a Finite Moon – Dreams of Perpetual Nightâ€). Lesser Traveled Waters most likely appeal to fans of everything from Neurosis to Tool to Will Haven to Aphotic to Meatjack, along with attributes to both Lamb of God and Weedeater…not that they necessarily sound like any one of these acts individually. Regardless, Gollum have coughed up a wholly satisfying 46–minute release filled with chugging low-end sub-death metal, paranoid post-doom and apocalyptic melody. Get this.†– Dave Brenner, Metal Maniacs (Jan 2005 issue)
"Gollum's Lesser Traveled Waters might just be one of the most unique metal CD's I have heard in quite some time. Sort of like a weird combination of death metal, stoner/doom metal, thrash, and a dose of psychedelic prog, the four fellows in this North Carolina band certainly get major points for doing something different, as the eleven tracks here of mostly instrumental brutality are chock full of more killer guitar riffs and grooves than most bands with twice the track record can muster." - Pete Pardo, Sea Of Tranquility
"...Lesser Traveled Waters is the band's new release and is one of the most original metal records composed in a long time...Gollum are one of those bands that takes from all kinds of metal (black, death, doom, thrash, industrial, classic prog, you name it), and mix it tastefully into a creepy concoction that is more impressive than any other genre-jumping band..." - Velcro Lewis, StonerRock.com
"...Murderously heavy riffs collide with short blast beats, a serious ton of groove...Something a little more unique than what other bands are doing these days. And that's a rarity." - Tom Wren, Metal Nightmare
"...What Gollum does well is combine copious amounts of riffage with synth, programming, and samples that move swiftly through the bloodstream. Hunter Holland’s drumming pulverizes with foot speed and induces seizures with the fervor of an octopus on speed...we’re beginning to see groups like Gollum retaining the heaviness but pushing the boundaries of the genre...Gollum deftly keeps the album sounding like extreme metal with groove and heft, yet pulls together an interesting mosaic of sounds that sets them apart from both the more traditional metal and noise core packs - not an easy thing to do and I applaud them for it. These waters are indeed lesser traveled." - Scott, Live4Metal
"...largely instrumental (excepting movie samples and two high-profile appearances from Lamb of God’s D. Randall Blythe and Weedeater’s Dave Collins) might actually prove a blessing, removing the yoke of singular genre association from these fellows. In any case, while blastbeats abound, they clearly serve more as punctuation than as a de rigueur convention. So, then, consider this as a cross between death and the most expansive stoner doom you’ve ever heard (witness the organic, languid pace of multi-part “The Dissolution of Faith†as proof positive), further complicated with elements of Eastern mysticism, progressive fits and starts, and cutting-edge multimedia. The impression fully gained is of a band that, as excellent as it already is, has every reason to suggest that its potential has barely been gleaned, let alone exploited to its fullest. Like Mastodon, Lamb of God and Neurosis, then, this one seems to owe much to several genres while not belonging to any of them. Rating: 8.5/10" - Matthew Kirshner, SMN News
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