Review Summary: The seed of filth foreshadowing things to come.
Anyone with an experience with a Gnaw Their Tongues release will know what to expect from the mastermind behind the project, Mories. His niche of disturbing blackened noise has been known with countless releases since 2007, each being an audio onslaught unsettling enough to bring Grandma to an early heart attack in each of their own right.
"Dimlit Hate Cellar" was recorded back in 2004, making it the first album Gnaw Their Tongues had under it's name. For what ever reason however, the album wasn't made available until 2010. The album itself could be thought as a stripped down version of a typical GTT release, that's not to say it isn't any less sadistic than "All The Dread..." or "To All Slaves..." because for black metal fans, this release delivers.
The EP has no audio samples or any abundance of sound effects and instrumentation save a couple electronic effects provided via synthesizer to spice up the atmosphere. To say the impression this album tries to give is nothing less than miserable and hateful would give the EP a huge disservice, the (sometimes even melodic) fuzzy guitar lines in the EP are akin to
Ulver's very own "Nattens Madrigal" and it works outstandingly to the EP's favor.
Such an album would seem to be a hidden diamond within GTT's Discography, however, the album is not without its flaws. The whole album lacks the innovation that is provided by later releases, and is bound to be washed away with countless other underground black metal releases in comparison. This EP is not the GTT we now know and love, but it's a release worth giving a listen if you're a fan of miserable black metal.
You might just like what you hear.
