In the project's very prolific year of 2007, a clear line of improvement can be seen in each release. Yet, in the waning hours of the year, there still wasn't an album that fully realized this stark improvement in songwriting. Even the hellish Reeking, Pained, And Shuddering felt a bit jumbled, as though Maurice De Jong didn't know what direction to take the album despite performing each direction very well. Then An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood was released, and it was by far the most complete Gnaw Their Tongues project at the time, capping of 2007 with the statement few thought he could make at the beginning of the year. The album is entirely sure of its own sound; it's noisy avant-doom complete with shrill strings and unholy choirs yielding to unsettling black ambient before rising up to destroy once again. The difference here is in the details; the way the songs progress is more fluid and sensible than ever before and everything is placed, including the the samples, in the exact spot they're most effective in. The album also ends surprisingly, with the end to "The Urge To Participate In Butchery" being entirely uplifting and, dare I say, beautiful. An equally surprising and captivating send-off into the new year, in which more uncharted waters would be mapped for the project.
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