Downfall of Gaia

My favourite meme is genre illiterate erudites calling anything remotely "posty" Neurosis. It's irrisory because they started as crust. My second favourite meme is: "Neurosis? Man, I dunno, what they are they? what genre do they play? No one knows, mang... They're their own genre. It's just... Neurosis, dude". My third favourite meme is claiming neocrust isn't crust. There's just no d-beat present in Gaia anymore (new album does not count). My fourth favourite meme is lumping anything "quirky", "peculiar" and "weird" as "progressive". "Isis, CoL and Tool etc are brogressive". Gaia are screamo.

wonder what psyoped people into calling Neurosis black metal "crust"

Their split with In the Hearts of Emperors is still THE shit

Great show in Munich! :-)

new album, yeah :-)

Yes, finally. New album announced for 17.03.23. https://downfallofgaia.bandcamp.com/album/silhouettes-of-disgust

fuk years go by but it seems this is greatest metal band ive seen live

music for gaia online enthusiasts

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oh fuck they are really my favorite band, can't wait to see them in Moscow

i don't even know what genre they play anymore. its clearly black metal in the instrumentation but vocals are much more on the crust, so i guess this is crustened black metal ?

i really like the new default picture but i really dont like how it looks in my library (yeah i got issues) but i cropped it so that the bandname inst overlapping with their faces on the profile page so mabye if you dont mind upvote that to make me happy thanks: https://www.last.fm/music/Downfall+of+Gaia/+images/ad8e03e868228e60e0b6d7db5677764a

pozdrowienia ze Śląska

Ethic really hits the mark a few times. The Grotesque Illusion of Being and Of Withering Violet Leaves are absolute 10/10 tracks. I feel the two longest tracks have a bit of idling, tho a lot of great moments too. Overall a delightfully good album even when I had huge expectations as Atrophy was one of my favourites of 2016.

Ethic of Radical Finitude is the best album of the year so far.

New album is good for sure.

The new album is fairly good but stop it with the spoken parts, just stop. They're not good, they add nothing and just grain the album's momentum to a halt. Want to use female vocals? Perfect, make her sing. Just do that

Very much enjoying the new album. certainly will check them out when they roll through town with The Ocean.

Solid new album

Ethic of Radical Finitude is an incredible album. Downfall of Gaia are masters of the introduction: beautiful clean gloomy post-rock guitar passages with drummer Michael Kadnar shaping the structure of what's to come. Their sound is massive, I absolutely love the lingering tremolo picked riffs and melodies combined with intense vocals and absolutely incredible drumming. Michael Kadnar is such a breath of fresh air in black metal drumming: his blast beats are very dynamic with perfectly placed accents, and his way of playing and constructing fills actually reminds me more of guys like Ben Koller (Converge) and Nick Yacyshyn (Sumac) than black metal drummers. It brings the music to another level, it is very atmospheric, but also visceral.

Just discovered these guys due to The Ocean... But what the fuck is with the 'screamo' tag... What is screamo? Is it this?

damn, the 2nd half too good for them

Flawless new album. They become better and better with every new record.

really dig the new album

Ethic of Radical Finitude is amazing

New album is a fucking killer! Meow! =^.^=

New album is just as amazing as I was expecting

Awesome band !

The title track of Atrophy is so fucking fantastic. Like, how many bands could even think of starting their track with a nearly 1 minute long frigging drum solo and make it an essential part of the composition?

Soooo heavy. See you in Brno, Czech Republic.

I saw them live on Saturday. What a concert. Awesome!

Goddamn so good!!!!!!!!

Just got into Downfall today and i am already encapsulated by their music. heavy.

These guys just came up in my Spotify discover Weekly. Sounds great. will certainly be checking these guys out.

Feel like they're greatly underrated. Loved Atrophy and Aeon (haven't listened to the others as much) but this is some damn fantastic atmospheric black metal. Don't know what the hell is up with the tags (Screamo? Really?)

Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes - this is something new for me. It is even possible that this is exactly what I was looking for all these years, listening to albums of different bands and artists in completely different styles ranging from long ago the classic Heavy, Thrash, Groove to a fucking Gorenoise, Coprogrind and even certain Shitcore (includes Breakcore, Speedcore and Noisecore). Yet this musical satisfaction that I had never experienced before. Enchanting!

Great stuff!

Motherfuck, that album is insane.