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Gigan and Mothra skating by Taco Boy Designs

#art #Gigan #Mothra #Godzilla #kaiju #skating #TacoBoyDesigns

Gigan and Mothra skating by Taco Boy Designs

#art #Gigan #Mothra #Godzilla #kaiju #skating #TacoBoyDesigns

They say you’re a different person every seven years. That’s how long it takes for every cell in your body to slowly get replaced by a new batch, rendering you a new fellow, hopefully wiser and better than the one you were before. By such metrics, Cranial Osteotomy are a new band twice over, emerging from the mountains of Russia with their second offering, Vortex of the Dark Knowledge, a whopping fifteen years after their debut. Brutal death has had a lot of growth in those years, where the slams got hammier, the jams got whammier, and the sanity of listeners everywhere grew more defeated. Have the last fifteen years given Cranial Osteotomy the knowledge they need to compete?

Vortex of the Dark Knowledge comes with a sound that sounds modernized, for better and worse.1 Vocalist/guitarist Vlad carries a moist, guttural register between Devourment and Symphobia, and manages to make his syllables serve the riffs instead of vomiting mindlessly over the tracks. Drummer Vlad Melnik has a good flair for triplet and quintuplet-heavy fills, using a more jazzy, perpetually changing approach to rhythm making, especially with his snare, not relying on sixteenth-note straightforward monotony. Bassist Vitaly Sturk, while never quite showcased beyond a few all-too-brief fills, is given enough room in the cramped mix to bolster the collection of grooves and slams present. Despite a fairly brickwalled master, there’s been enough care put into the mix to ensure it sounds somewhat thick and chunky to justify the writing style, with a decent amount of articulation being given to the drum kit.

At their peak, Cranial Osteotomy know how to fling some absolutely savage snapshots of brutality. “Structures of Decadence2 Impurity” features the stankiest snare-to-rimshot accent before dropping into a halftime slam while Vlad changes his beats with the creativity of Gigan. Riff structures yeet the listener hither and dither, using Decrepit Birth’s …And Time Begins approach to stitching the moments together, but actual measures feature a Putridity meets Visceral Disgorge styling. “Obscenity Aeon” channels vintage Suffocation through staccato-laced chugs, while “Dripping into Sombre3 Quagmire” toys with arpeggio leads which consistently descend into Abysmal Dawn-styled chugs. Multiple cuts come with a mean slam or foul bop of a beat, always metamorphizing into the next brief idea.

The problem is these highs are so disassociated that it renders Vortex of the Dark Knowledge a collection of dope moments, but not of dope songs. The compositional approach Cranial Osteotomy have taken is dizzying, disjointed, and high-octane, but so rooted in the art of the transition that remembering a whole track is a difficult task. I can recall the slow-mo slam opening up “Vortex of the Dark Knowledge”, the time signature changes littering “Cathedral Butchery Feast”, and a litany of other bits, but if you aren’t following the track list actively, you wouldn’t know you’re in certain songs until those highlights arrive. Song changes are so rapid as to be nonexistent, with only the requisite fadeout closing “Scorched Diadem” a clear signal the album has concluded. This outro is another highlight, with the drums continuing to dig more and more pockets into the menacing riff as it carries us to the finish line. It’s also another point of regret, as that outro is the only part of the song I can remember existing. Vortex of the Dark Knowledge is curiously backloaded, which, while not an issue unto itself, exacerbates the overall blurry nature of the album, as early cuts rush by without much in the way of real identity. While featuring a glut of moments to make listeners clutch the air and bench-press their couch, there are no songs that demand being replayed for their beginning-to-end sense of quality in composition.

Credit where it’s due, our Russian lads have indeed emerged from the ether sporting some real growth in their Dark Knowledge. Nevertheless, their struggles with putting together memorable songs over memorable snapshots cannot be denied. If this upward trajectory continues, we will all meet back here when I’m in my late 40s to be subjected to a real taint-kicker of a release. Until then, give it a listen, harvest your choice of cuts for some gym playlists, and then join those who have already chosen the path of brutality in seeking true enlightenment elsewhere.

Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Comatose Music
Website: Album Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: July 10th, 2026

They say you’re a different person every seven years. That’s how long it takes for every cell in your body to slowly get replaced by a new batch, rendering you a new fellow, hopefully wiser and better than the one you were before. By such metrics, Cranial Osteotomy are a new band twice over, emerging from the mountains of Russia with their second offering, Vortex of the Dark Knowledge, a whopping fifteen years after their debut. Brutal death has had a lot of growth in those years, where the slams got hammier, the jams got whammier, and the sanity of listeners everywhere grew more defeated. Have the last fifteen years given Cranial Osteotomy the knowledge they need to compete?

Vortex of the Dark Knowledge comes with a sound that sounds modernized, for better and worse.1 Vocalist/guitarist Vlad carries a moist, guttural register between Devourment and Symphobia, and manages to make his syllables serve the riffs instead of vomiting mindlessly over the tracks. Drummer Vlad Melnik has a good flair for triplet and quintuplet-heavy fills, using a more jazzy, perpetually changing approach to rhythm making, especially with his snare, not relying on sixteenth-note straightforward monotony. Bassist Vitaly Sturk, while never quite showcased beyond a few all-too-brief fills, is given enough room in the cramped mix to bolster the collection of grooves and slams present. Despite a fairly brickwalled master, there’s been enough care put into the mix to ensure it sounds somewhat thick and chunky to justify the writing style, with a decent amount of articulation being given to the drum kit.

At their peak, Cranial Osteotomy know how to fling some absolutely savage snapshots of brutality. “Structures of Decadence2 Impurity” features the stankiest snare-to-rimshot accent before dropping into a halftime slam while Vlad changes his beats with the creativity of Gigan. Riff structures yeet the listener hither and dither, using Decrepit Birth’s …And Time Begins approach to stitching the moments together, but actual measures feature a Putridity meets Visceral Disgorge styling. “Obscenity Aeon” channels vintage Suffocation through staccato-laced chugs, while “Dripping into Sombre3 Quagmire” toys with arpeggio leads which consistently descend into Abysmal Dawn-styled chugs. Multiple cuts come with a mean slam or foul bop of a beat, always metamorphizing into the next brief idea.

The problem is these highs are so disassociated that it renders Vortex of the Dark Knowledge a collection of dope moments, but not of dope songs. The compositional approach Cranial Osteotomy have taken is dizzying, disjointed, and high-octane, but so rooted in the art of the transition that remembering a whole track is a difficult task. I can recall the slow-mo slam opening up “Vortex of the Dark Knowledge”, the time signature changes littering “Cathedral Butchery Feast”, and a litany of other bits, but if you aren’t following the track list actively, you wouldn’t know you’re in certain songs until those highlights arrive. Song changes are so rapid as to be nonexistent, with only the requisite fadeout closing “Scorched Diadem” a clear signal the album has concluded. This outro is another highlight, with the drums continuing to dig more and more pockets into the menacing riff as it carries us to the finish line. It’s also another point of regret, as that outro is the only part of the song I can remember existing. Vortex of the Dark Knowledge is curiously backloaded, which, while not an issue unto itself, exacerbates the overall blurry nature of the album, as early cuts rush by without much in the way of real identity. While featuring a glut of moments to make listeners clutch the air and bench-press their couch, there are no songs that demand being replayed for their beginning-to-end sense of quality in composition.

Credit where it’s due, our Russian lads have indeed emerged from the ether sporting some real growth in their Dark Knowledge. Nevertheless, their struggles with putting together memorable songs over memorable snapshots cannot be denied. If this upward trajectory continues, we will all meet back here when I’m in my late 40s to be subjected to a real taint-kicker of a release. Until then, give it a listen, harvest your choice of cuts for some gym playlists, and then join those who have already chosen the path of brutality in seeking true enlightenment elsewhere.

Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Comatose Music
Website: Album Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: July 10th, 2026

First post on the new blog and it's my 20 year photoversary?!
https://www.eldave.photo/blog/gigan-20-years-later

#miniaturepainting #3dprinting #godzilla #gigan #kaiju

Gigan (Trendmasters)

Gigan first appeared in 1972’s Godzilla vs. Gigan. He is originally an extraterrestrial cyborg monster used by the M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens to invade Earth, but his backstory changes a bit depending on the media he is being featured in. Gigan’s abilities include a jet pack for flight, a circular saw on his chest, and hooked blades for hands. In Godzilla: Final Wars he can also shoot […]

Read more... https://monstertoyblog.com/gigan-trendmasters/

#Gigan#Trendmasters

Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes - 2011
#Music #AlbumSuggestions #NowPlaying #NowListening
#Gigan #QuasiHallucinogenicSonicLandscapes

#Godzilla vs #Gigan
Going old school and watching it on #VHS.
I have to say, #Anguirus really is useless.
Also, this is the first Godzilla film I've seen where Godzilla actually bleeds.

#Godzilla vs #Gigan
Going old school and watching it on #VHS.
King Ghidorah and Gigan were wrecking the place but the big G and #Anguirus are on the scene...

#Godzilla vs #Gigan
Going old school and watching it on #VHS.
So far, I've seen what looks like Godzilla and Anguirus talking to each other and now King Ghidorah and Gigan are teaming up against them.

𝑺eance 𝑫e 𝑴inuit 𝑫u 𝑽endredi 𝑺oir

𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧
Film Japonais réalisé par Jun Fukuda de 1973
Avec Katsuhiko Sasaki , Hiroyuki Kawase , Yutaka Hayashi , Robert Dunham et Kotaro Tomita

#Godzilla #cinegenres #vidéothèqueidéale #Kaijū #culte
#GodzillaContreMegalon #GojiraTaiMegaro #JunFukuda
#séancedeminuitduvendredisoir #Kaijū #FilmDeMonstre #Godzilla
#Megalon #Gigan #JetJaguar

𝐄n 𝐒avoir 𝐏lus:
https://cinegenres.com/film-du-jour/

Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]

By Maddog

Back in the early 2010s, Gigan wooed me with their lovably absurd album titles, like 2013’s Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery and Super Science. Luckily, Gigan had the musical chops to back it up. Their distinctive blend of brutal death metal, skronky technicality, and alien atmospheres made me a cult megafan. Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus interrupts a seven-year silence, and the only staffers thrilled about its arrival were myself and Alekhines Gun. In retrospect, this is understandable; AAI is a weird album by a weird band, and it’s unlikely to win over anyone who isn’t already so inclined. While Gigan’s newest is a lot to chew on, it offers a great glimpse into why I’ve stood gaping for over a decade.

If Mithras is Morbid Angel in space, then Gigan is Wormed in space. Eric Hersemann’s guitars lay the foundation, playing Defeated Sanity riffs at an Archspire pace. However, in its melodies, its composition, and its production, the album is foremost an atmospheric journey, not a riff-fest. Hersemann’s guitar and bass lines sound otherworldly through their dissonance and sudden transformations (“Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror”). Eschewing simple song structures, Gigan’s uneasy odysseys take several focused listens to make any sense. Straying from the genre’s typical clinical production, AAI opts for a reverb-laden wall of noise that resembles a muddled Mithras. This remains my biggest gripe, as the album’s cloudy guitar sound untooths its impressive melodies. Conversely, AAI’s highlight might be its drumming. Nathan Cotton’s world-class performance excels in its raw technicality, its frenzied evolution, and its cockpit role in the album’s ebb and flow. But most of all, it wows through its raw humanity. On highlights like “Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis,” the attention to detail in Cotton’s performance shines through every beat and can only be described as beautiful. While that word isn’t common in brutal death metal reviews, it’s a testament to Gigan’s singular sound.

Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is a wild journey. Gigan steamrolls the listener with brutal riffs, appealing to idiots like me without devolving into idiocy themselves (“Square Wave Subversion”). On the other end, Gigan’s skronky adventures are grand slams. The latter half of “Trans-Dimensional Crossing…” blends light-speed brutality with Morse Code guitars that remain the album’s highlight, while “Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes” captivates me with The Velvet Underground-style chaos. Armed with bulletproof melodies in their right hand and chaos in their left, Gigan’s compositions feel like Lovecraftian narratives. Most strikingly, the shrieking melodies and distorted drum-led chorus of “The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids” evoke visceral terror for the plight of those poor Baganoids.1 Gigan fares less well when they sacrifice riffs for amorphous meanderings, especially on longer tracks (“Emerging Sects…”). But when AAI wields riffcraft and atmosphere in unison, it stands unmatched. For instance, the closer “Ominous Silhouettes…” wows with what sounds like a Deeds of Flesh riff being played by a depressed Martian, leading into dual-guitar screeches à la Pyrrhon. Engrossing and ever-evolving, Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus immerses the listener in its saga.

While snippets of Gigan bear the signatures of other bands, no one else has ever made music like this. Although its bloat and its muddy sound hold it back, Gigan’s comeback is a rewarding specimen of their unconventional brand of brutal death metal. Dissonant, brutal, grimy, and alien, Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is tough to digest even for the Gigan-initiated. Ears shall be split, brows shall be furrowed, and poseurs shall be (strangely) harvested. Few will survive. But those that do will have quite a story to tell.

Tracks to Check Out: “Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis,” “The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids”

Show 1 footnote

1. I didn’t even know what a Baganoid is; indeed, a cursory search revealed that this is just a made-up Gigan word. Fake news! ↩

#2024 #AmericanMetal #AnomalousAbstractigateInfinitessimus #AtmosphericDeathMetal #BrutalDeathMetal #DeathMetal #DeedsOfFlesh #DefeatedSanity #DissonantDeathMetal #Gigan #Mithras #Pyrrhon #TechnicalBrutalDeathMetal #TechnicalDeathMetal #TheVelvetUnderground #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2024 #TYMHM #Wormed

Hell yeah, this new music Friday (well, Saturday for me) is just getting better and better.

#bandcamp #gigan #nowplaying

🤘

For #ThursDeath:

#Gigan: Erratic Pusitivity and Horror

https://song.link/kbs4qxb65b8md

#DissonantProgressiveTechnicalDeathMetal

FFO #Afterbirth #BloodIncantation #Conglaciation

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#MetalInjection
GIGAN Streams "Erratic Pulsitivity And Horror", Announces New Record

https://metalinjection.net/new-music/gigan-streams-erratic-pulsitivity-and-horror-announces-new-record

#Gigan #ErraticPulsitivityAndHorror

#TheMetalDogArticleList
#MetalInjection
GIGAN Streams "Erratic Pulsitivity And Horror", Announces New Record

https://metalinjection.net/new-music/gigan-streams-erratic-pulsitivity-and-horror-announces-new-record

#Gigan #ErraticPulsitivityAndHorror

(Visual aid from the poll in the preceding post – a small kaiju rogues gallery) #KaijuSoccerLeague #gigan #rodan #mechagodzilla #kingghidorah #nogodsallmonsters

(Visual aid from the poll in the preceding post – a small kaiju rogues gallery) #KaijuSoccerLeague #gigan #rodan #mechagodzilla #kingghidorah #nogodsallmonsters

A modest suggestion for an alternate debate!

Which of these spectacular weirdos deserves to be the next entry into the #KaijuSoccerLeague? Alternate candidates welcome in the comments. 🔥

#gigan #rodan #mechagodzilla #kingghidorah #nogodsallmonsters

A modest suggestion for an alternate debate!

Which of these spectacular weirdos deserves to be the next entry into the #KaijuSoccerLeague? Alternate candidates welcome in the comments. 🔥

#gigan #rodan #mechagodzilla #kingghidorah #nogodsallmonsters

This week’s #CultShelf leading kaiju are Godzilla, Megalon, Jet Jaguar, Gigan and Anguirus
#GodzillaVSMegalon #Godzilla #Megalon #JetJaguar #Gigan #Anguirus #Kaiju #scifi

This week’s #CultShelf leading kaiju are Godzilla, Megalon, Jet Jaguar, Gigan and Anguirus
#GodzillaVSMegalon #Godzilla #Megalon #JetJaguar #Gigan #Anguirus #Kaiju #scifi

This week’s Tuesday #CultShelf leading kaiju are Godzilla, Anguirus, Gigan and King Ghidorah
#GodzillaVSGigan #Godzilla #Anguirus #Gigan #KingGhidorah #kaiju

This week’s Tuesday #CultShelf leading kaiju are Godzilla, Anguirus, Gigan and King Ghidorah
#GodzillaVSGigan #Godzilla #Anguirus #Gigan #KingGhidorah #kaiju

#chibiGodzilla may be done for the season, casting a gloom on Mondays until season two, but we still have #GodzillaIsland Tuesdays!

Episode #37: Surely This Time!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=18vcQsqwypA&feature=share
>Gigan spares Godzilla's life but leaves him wounded. Can Godzilla recuperate in Rodan's hot spring in peace?!

#Godzilla #Gigan

#chibiGodzilla may be done for the season, casting a gloom on Mondays until season two, but we still have #GodzillaIsland Tuesdays!

Episode #37: Surely This Time!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=18vcQsqwypA&feature=share
>Gigan spares Godzilla's life but leaves him wounded. Can Godzilla recuperate in Rodan's hot spring in peace?!

#Godzilla #Gigan

Godzilla vs. Megalon (ゴジラ対メガロ) was likely the first AI movie I ever saw. Early on, agents hijack control of the perfect android from naive inventors, a scenario they had anticipated, however the AI, realizing the inherent danger of having a master control, disconnects and becomes autonomous!

Of course this could never happen in real life…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=leqmMWzVJNI&feature=share
>Underground nuclear testing has angered the undersea kingdom of #Seatopia!

#cinema #TOHO #Godzilla #megalon #gigan #jetjaguar #ai

Godzilla vs. Megalon (ゴジラ対メガロ) was likely the first AI movie I ever saw. Early on, agents hijack control of the perfect android from naive inventors, a scenario they had anticipated, however the AI, realizing the inherent danger of having a master control, disconnects and becomes autonomous!

Of course this could never happen in real life…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=leqmMWzVJNI&feature=share
>Underground nuclear testing has angered the undersea kingdom of #Seatopia!

#cinema #TOHO #Godzilla #megalon #gigan #jetjaguar #ai

#KaijuToy No. 13 -- #Gigan

This is Gigan from Godzilla vs Gigan (1972). The dark satire of Godzilla vs. Hedorah had been box office poison, so shifting gears to something funny and goofy For The Kids was in order.

The buzzsaw tummy! The fashionable wraparound shades for eyes! Gigan is a cyborg engineered by an alien people to destroy Earth!

Still, there are a few bits of gentle social satire about the times smuggled in here and there, if you look.

#KaijuToys #gacha #gashapon #Kaiju #Toho

Together again! After fifty years!
https://youtu.be/hyJHXPMCsb8
#Godziban #gigan #megalon

Together again! After fifty years!
https://youtu.be/hyJHXPMCsb8
#Godziban #gigan #megalon

Tumblr exclusive: Mother Gigarian takes the stage... and drags her son off it.
#kaiju #gigan #Godziban #GiganIsStrongButHisMindIsWeak #SoSaysLittleAndIBelieveHim

https://at.tumblr.com/astoundingbeyondbelief/mother-gigarian-takes-the-stage-and-drags-her/5xrjbxwrdyir

🐓BONUSFOLGE🦖
Am #GODZILLADAY wurden zwei Kurzfilme von TOHO veröffentlicht in denen sich Godzilla und Gigan auf die Schnauze hauen. Chris und Philip haben sich beide mal angeguckt und quatschen in einer Bonuspodcastfolge darüber.
#Godzillamonth #Podcast #Gigan #Giganrex #Godzilla

https://anchor.fm/dinosdaemonendoktoren/episodes/BONUS---Godzilla-vs-Gigan--Godzilla-vs-Gigan-Rex-Kurzfilme-2022-e1qbgaj