What's all this then?
Well, in short, it's a new musical side-project from myself celebrating
the fusion of heavy metal and sub bass music with a 1970s High-Fantasy
vibe for good measure. (I know, bare with me)
To get a more in-depth look, it all started in 2015 with a Discogs page
set up to buy and sell parts of my record collection after returning to
the UK from Germany. The name is a play on 'Southern Lord' one of my
all-time favourite record labels based in the US responsible for
releasing records by bands such as: Sunn O))), Sleep, Earth and
Goatsnake.
Later I’d perform vinyl DJ sets under this moniker when invited to play a
couple of shows in the UK around 2018/19. These sets comprised of music
from my ever expanding collection of 70s prog-rock, doom, stoner,
blues, fuzz, psych and even some folk and world music.
Of course, we all know what happened immediately following 2019, So I
decided to take this format I'd been enjoying live into the digital
world, I got a webcam and took to Facebook and Twitch to perform a
series of live streams in a fun and more relaxed radio broadcast format
playing all my favourite records to a group of friends and relatives in
an attempt to elevate both our collective boredom.
Sadly, this didn't work out, as after only a couple of shows I was
issued with a Facebook ban and multiple warnings from Twitch for playing
copy written material in a live stream. So my days of pretending to be
John Peel were sadly numbered. Fast-forward to Winter 2020 and work has
already begun on the next Gore Tech releases, however during this
process I'd find myself experimenting on some new tracks that certainly
weren't Gore Tech tracks, but also they were not, not Gore Tech tracks
either.
During the last 6 months I’ve been fortunate enough to escape into a
world of ‘'Dungeon Synth', re-reading the works of Tolkien and spending a
lot of time alone in the peak district national park. And as sound
systems became an ever increasingly distant memory I’ve found my myself
mixing tracks differently, more specifically producing music that
conventionally sounded like 'rock' anthems than standard 'bass music'
and that's when I decided with the help of Murder Channel to lean on my
trusty and rather versatile new alias to release these tracks out to the
world.
Of course much like my other projects, (Hack Sabbath, Gain and Gore
Tech) You can expect ‘heavy’ to be the optimum word albeit this one is a
little more tongue-in-cheek and magical.
I really hope you enjoy listening to these new tracks as much as I did making them,
May your glasses remain full and your demons slumber,
Gore Tech / Northern Lord.
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