Dead Mountain Mouth is the debut full-length album by Genghis Tron

Genghis Tron

Genghis Tron is a three-piece experimental metal band formed in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco, California. Genghis Tron signed to Relapse Records after releasing two recordings on Crucial Blast. The band is noted for its creative...

. It was released on June 6, 2006, on Crucial Blast in CD format, and on June 27, 2006, on Lovepump United in vinyl format (white and clear coloured). A vinyl reissue is planned for late 2008, again on Lovepump United.

Background

The album was recorded and mixed between January 10 and 19, 2006, at Godcity Studios in Salem, Massachusetts

Salem, Massachusetts

Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...

 by Kurt Ballou. It was mastered and sequenced at West West Side Music in New Windsor, New York

New Windsor, New York

New Windsor is a town in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was estimated at 25,244 in 2010 by the US Census.The Town of New Windsor is in the eastern part of the county, bordering the Town of Newburgh and the City of Newburgh....

, by Alan Douches and Kim Dumas respectively.

The album is more varied than the previous EP, and features the band exploring such genres as doom metal

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

, intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music is a term that describes an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s. The genre is influenced by a wide range of musical styles particularly electronic dance music such as Detroit Techno...

 (IDM), power noise

Power noise

Power noise is a fusion genre among noise music and various styles of electronic dance music. It should not be confused with "power electronics", which lacks rhythmic elements and is closer to harsh noise...

, experimental rock

Experimental rock

Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique....

 and grindcore

Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....

. Both the album and the title track quote and echo T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...

's poem, The Waste Land

The Waste Land

The Waste Land[A] is a 434-line[B] modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its...

, involving pivotal themes of disconnectedness, disharmony and non-fecundity.

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Genghis Tron

1. "The Folding Road" – 3:01
2. "Chapels" – 1:54
3. "From the Aisle" – 3:00
4. "Dead Mountain Mouth" – 2:55
5. "White Walls" – 4:48
6. "Badlands" – 1:31
7. "Greek Beds" – 2:38
8. "Asleep on the Forest Floor" – 4:08
9. "Warm Woods" – 4:03
10. "Lake of Virgins" – 3:31

Personnel

Genghis Tron

• Hamilton Jordan - guitar, bass guitar
• Michael Sochynsky - programming, keyboards
• Mookie Singerman - vocals

Additional musicians

• Mike McKenzie (The Red Chord
  The Red Chord
  The Red Chord is an American grindcore band from Revere, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. The band is made up of vocalist Guy Kozowyk, guitarist Mike "Gunface" McKenzie, and bassist Greg Weeks. The band gained a fanbase with its 2002 debut album Fused Together in Revolving Doors. The second album,...
  
  ) - additional vocals on "Dead Mountain Mouth" and "White Walls"
• Jake Friedman - additional vocals on "The Folding Road" and "Asleep on the Forest Floor"
• Greg Weeks
  Greg Weeks
  Greg Weeks is an American singer-songwriter based in Philadelphia. His music has been described as folk, acoustic, psychedelic and experimental. He is best known as a founding member of the psychedelic folk-rock band Espers. Weeks has released four solo albums and has guest-recorded with many...
  
  - additional bass guitar on "Asleep on the Forest Floor"

Production

• Alan Douches - mastering
• Kurt Ballou - recording and mixing
• Kim Dumas - sequencing
• Jon Beasley - artwork and design