Subterranean Rites

by GNAWED

supported by

venom-og This stuff has the ingredients for the most of the black amp. Needless to say buy this.

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$6 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

31

releases

Get all 31 GNAWED releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Field Drift, Pain Apparatus, Subterranean Rites, 12th Cell, Entry and Removal, Flesh Renewed, Ruin, Hewn by the Hands of the Damned, and 23 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$24.50 USD or more (50% OFF)
12" vinyl released on Closter Recordings
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming of Subterranean Rites via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out
CD released by Malignant Records
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming of Subterranean Rites via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out
Limited Edition Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Cassette from Cloister Recordings

Includes unlimited streaming of Subterranean Rites via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out

	1.	Vivisepultre (In Rubble and Spoil) 07:23
	2.	The Rafts (Vial Tincture) 07:22
	3.	Subfuerat 09:14
	4.	By Ropes Abseil 06:53
	5.	Subterranean Rites 07:17
	6.	Through Sunken Stone 08:59

about

"The result of over three years of location recordings in sewers, subterranean facilities, and abandoned industrial complexes, Gnawed’s latest full length is without question his most focused, and the definitive, benchmark recording of his illustrious discography. Even within Gnawed’s heaviest power electronics material, there was always a strong atmospheric undercurrent, and Grants work in his other project Atrox Pestis, showed a growing interest in more minimal dark ambience, but nothing will prepare you for lightless chasms and seraphic horror of Subterranean Rites; 6 tracks of fetid, catacomb exhalations and slowly unfurling soundscapes possessed with just enough distant industrial clangor and heavily processed vocals to remind you it’s still a Gnawed record at its core. Truly a masterwork"

"Over the past decade, Grant Richardson has nurtured his solo undertaking Gnawed into one of the leading forces of Midwest noise. Following numerous cassettes and CD’s for labels like Phage Tapes, New Forces, and his own Maniacal Hatred imprint, Richardson is welcomed into the Cloister family via Subterranean Rites, his first full-length vinyl release (with a CD version on the Malignant label) carefully constructed over the past three years. His meticulously patient and disconcerting approach to death industrial and power electronics evades blunt bombast for a distinct dynamism that crawls ahead obscurely, a slow suffocation by the stench of decay lining the sewers, tunnels, and concrete vaults Richardson recorded on location as source material. While it may seem trite to laud Subterranean Rites as the most thoroughly realized Gnawed work thus far, Richardson’s breathing drones, sub-audible pulsations, subconsciously esoteric vocals, and almost orchestral grim electronic manipulations have been articulated with masterful confidence, a chilling shot of disquiet for bleak times."

credits

released June 5, 2020

license

about

GNAWED Minneapolis, Minnesota

contact / help

Contact GNAWED

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like GNAWED, you may also like:

Black Lucifer Rising
by Controlled Death

supported by 24 fans who also own “Subterranean Rites”

I cannot praise this album enough. This album is absolutely terrifying! The many starts and stops creates this very h settling tension. Each start expands on the stopper idea previously. It’s like the music equivalent of walking through thick fog while passing out multiple times throughout trying to find a place to orientate yourself. There may or may not be something sinister in that fog, but you don’t want to stick around to find out. Bought the vinyl so I summon the fog demons through spe showhornwithteeth
go to album
Human Error
by Government Alpha

supported by 22 fans who also own “Subterranean Rites”
go to album
Black Scorpion Rising
by Controlled Death

supported by 22 fans who also own “Subterranean Rites”
go to album
Lovers
by STCLVR

Fans of Fire-Toolz, take note! The brutal new LP from STCLVR occupies the same sonic territory, with harsh electronics & pummeling beats. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 17, 2020
go to album
Overgrown
by Kjostad / Ligature

This split EP from Kjostad and Ligature balances moody, unsettling electronics with wild sheets of noise. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 17, 2017
go to album
La Bellezza Del Cemento
by Code 0066

Carefully sculpted industrial techno that pulses with what feels like a living heartbeat, the latest from experimenter Alessandro Lerario. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 20, 2016
go to album
Demonic Trip Through Hell
by Controlled Death

supported by 21 fans who also own “Subterranean Rites”

Infernal melodies 9 levels deep. Death Itself
go to album