Old Gods Give Them Color vinyl is an LP from a project featuring former members of The Dillinger Escape Plan, recorded by Chris Koltay and mastered by Zach Weeks, both engineers whose credits include work with The Armed and Protomartyr among others. Released on Forge Again, this is heavy music with serious pedigree behind it and a production team that understood precisely how to capture it in the studio.
Old Gods Give Them Color vinyl
The Dillinger Escape Plan spent two decades as one of the most technically demanding and intense acts in heavy music, building a catalog that influenced entire generations of bands working in mathcore, metalcore, and experimental heavy genres. When former members form a new project, the catalog they come from sets a specific standard that listeners will apply whether it is intended or not. Old Gods operates differently from Dillinger in terms of approach and atmosphere, but the musical intelligence that defined that band is present in how Old Gods was conceived, recorded, and delivered.
The Production and the Record
Chris Koltay recording and Zach Weeks mastering is a combination associated with some of the best-sounding heavy underground releases in recent years. The Armed’s records have been praised specifically for their engineering quality, and that standard carries over to Old Gods. Give Them Color sounds like a band that took the recording process as seriously as the composition process. The LP format allows the production to work as it was designed, with the dynamics and low-end weight intact across both sides.
Who This Is For
Collectors of heavy and experimental music who follow the Dillinger Escape Plan lineage. Anyone who tracks the work of Koltay and Weeks as engineers and producers. Forge Again has positioned Old Gods correctly for the audience that will appreciate what is on this record. Give Them Color on vinyl is the format that serves the material correctly.
Forge Again positioned Old Gods correctly for the audience that will respond to this music. Former Dillinger members making heavy records with serious engineers behind the boards is a proposition that sells itself to the right collector without additional context. Give Them Color on vinyl is the format that allows the production quality, the arrangements, and the performances to come through the way they were designed to be heard by the people who made them.
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