Geld "Currency // Castration" 12"

PRESSING INFO: First Press 1593 x Blood Red Standard Gram 350 x Aqua Blue and Electric Blue Cloudy Effect Standard Gram *Relapse.com Exclusive* 300 x Metallic Gold and Metallic Silver Merge with Red, Blood Red and Oxblood Splatter Standard Gram *Australian Distro Exclusive* (Not available through Relapse.com) 140 x Cyan Blue, Mustard Yellow and White Tri Color Merge with Red, Blood Red and Oxblood Splatter Standard Gram *Relapse.com Exclusive* 105 x Red and Cyan Blue Galaxy Effect Merge Standard Gram *Band Exclusive* (Not available through Relapse.com) 100 x Clear (Not available to the public - Friends of band and label only) "If you’ve ever wondered what Catharsis covering The 13th Floor Elevators might sound like, wonder no longer—and that’s only the start!" - Decibel Magazine GELD make their Relapse Records debut with their third full length, Currency // Castration! The Australian band distills a despairingly hellish vision of the world into a thundering crack to the temple through an unsparing fusion of hardcore’s bleakest violence with metal’s ruthless strength-through-conviction. GELD's abrasive take on the genre is distorted through a lense of fuzzed out psych soundscapes; vocals truly sound like unhinged barks, while guitars, bass, and drums crash against one another frenetically, each track burning brighter and brighter. Every moment of Currency // Castration is urgent. Tracks such as “Chained to a Gate” edge and scratch at a relief that is ultimately denied, toying with the nightmarish promise of a breakdown that never comes. Elsewhere, "Cut You Down" pulses with frantically itching riffs that stream forth. "Fog of War" snaps and snarls; while "Secret Prison" evinces the honed physique of Japanese hardcore fed through the broken brain of someone on a years-long Rrröööaaarrr-era Voivod spin-out. Despite the band's innovative approach to the genre, GELD makes no pretensions at being “interesting” for interesting’s sake - As vocalist Al Smith puts it, “One of the most boring things people can do is try to dress up what someone else has already contributed to a genre and make it ‘clever’… We’re more interested in finding our own position.”  With Currency // Castration, GELD offers no promise of a higher purpose or resolve. Rather, they lean into dissociation, finding truth and meaning in the transcendental joy of simply escaping, surviving, existing.