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AVAILABLE NOW from GERMANY (Ván Records): "EVEN AS ALL BEFORE US" DOUBLE LP, GATEFOLD, THICK VINYL. $20 PLUS $4 S&H (U.S.) Email the Gault to place an order… Limited number available!

The Gault came together in San Francisco in 1998 with a single goal in mind: to present dark, textural, melodic music in a sincere and heartfelt way. Our task has been to explore these themes using broad, sweeping landscapes which grow and develop at their own pace; at times brooding and hypnotic, sometimes abrupt and intense. But always with a sense of storytelling and emotion.

Featuring ex-members of Weakling and current members of Amber Asylum and Asunder, this posthumous band has gained a cult status among lovers of dark, heavy music here in the US as well as in Europe.


Now, after several years on the shelf and numerous pressing complications, The Gault's first and only full-length cd entitled "Even As All Before Us" is currently available through Amortout and The Gault members. Please send us a message for more information. Only 1000 copies pressed.
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Member Since: 12/6/2005
Band Members: John Gossard—Guitar

Lorraine Rath—Bass, Vocals

Sarah Weiner—Drums

Ed Kunekamakorn—Vocals



Sounds Like: Aquarius Says: By now everyone should be familiar with SF black metal legends Weakling. A brief existence, a handful of shows, and a single amazing record (released on Andee's tUMULt label, we should mention). Members of Weakling played in and/or went on to play in Amber Asylum, the Champs, Drunk Horse, Asunder, Sangre Amado, Saros and the short lived but now totally cult blackened gothic doom outfit The Gault. Recorded way back in 1999 by Tim Green, The Gault's Even As All Before Us languished for years before the band finally agreed on a mix and a label, and now five years later this mighty slab of depressive doom finally sees the light of day. Imagine those Weakling riffs, slowed down and wrapped in dense '80s-ish reverb, smeared and stretched into serpentine minor key melodies, throbbing and pulsing and slithering through midtempo dronescapes of shimmering guitar buzz, creeping basslines, ghostlike female vocals, crashing steady drumming all cloaked in a rich blackened haze, suffocating and claustrophobic, but somehow completely epic at the same time. Think a black metal Joy Division and you might be close, due in no small part to vocalist Ed Kunakemakorn's distinctive wail. Equal parts Ian Curtis, Interpol's Paul Banks and weirdly enough, Dutch weirdo black metallers Urfaust, a soaring mournful croon, rich and velvety and quite haunting. Each track is a twisting complex doomscape of fuzzed out drones, pounding downtuned riffage, swirling psychedelic ambience, slow motion crawl and creep, building and building into massive black swells. A gorgeously creepy collection of heaving, lurching, dark and delicate, doomy and dense epics. So emotional and so totally and completely intense!
Record Label: Amortout (France) / Flood The Earth (US)
Type of Label: Indie