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Gnaw Their Tongues

{{Short description|Dutch experimental music project}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Gnaw Their Tongues

| image = Gnaw Their Tongues @ Roadburn Festival 2017 02.jpg

| caption = Gnaw Their Tongues at Roadburn Festival 2017

| image_upright = 1.2

| alias =

| origin = Drachten, Netherlands

| genre = {{hlist|Noise|dark ambient|black metal|art metal{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/the-top-10-arty-metal-bands/|title=The Top 10 Arty Metal Bands|date=11 April 2017|website=LA Weekly}}|drone|industrial}}

| years_active = 2004–present

| label = {{hlist|Burning World|Crucial Blast}}

| associated_acts = {{hlist|Aderlating|Astral|Atrocious|Cauteror|Cloak of Altering|De Magia Veterum|Mors Sonat|Ophiuchus|Pyriphlegethon|Seirom|Soulwound}}

| website = {{URL|http://www.devotionalhymns.com/gnawtheirtongues/}}

| current_members = Maurice de Jong

| past_members =

}}

Gnaw Their Tongues is an experimental musical project started by Dutch multi-instrumentalist and composer Maurice de Jong, otherwise known as Mories. It was founded in 2004 and produced a debut album in 2006 titled Spit at Me and Wreak Havoc on My Flesh.{{cite web |first=Chris |last=True |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=mn0000996902/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Gnaw Their Tongues |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=10 December 2015}} The output of Gnaw Their Tongues is extensive, with over seventy releases being attributed to its name. The name of the project is taken from passage 16:10-11 from the Book of Revelation: "The fifth angel, who poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds."{{cite web |url=http://www.hammersmashedsound.com/2009/04/gnaw-their-tongues-interview.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222153802/http://www.hammersmashedsound.com/2009/04/gnaw-their-tongues-interview.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=22 December 2015 |title=Gnaw Their Tongues Interview |publisher=Hammer Smashed Sound |date=14 April 2009 |access-date=10 December 2015}}

History

Maurice "Mories" de Jong established Gnaw Their Tongues, originally conceived as Dimlit Hate Cellar, as a new outlet for his music in 2004.{{cite web |first=Jon |last=Wiederhorn |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/gnaw-their-tongues-interview-2015/ |title=Gnaw Their Tongues' Mories Hates Humans. But Is "The Most Down-to-Earth Guy You'll Ever Meet" |publisher=Noisey |date=31 July 2015 |access-date=10 December 2015}} Previously, de Jong had been active musically since 1988 and composing music under several aliases since the early nineties.{{cite web |first=Erik |last=Heylen |url=http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/interviews/view/id/2213 |title=Gnaw Their Tongues – I Love Vinyl |publisher=Lords of Metal |date=August 2008 |access-date=10 December 2015}}{{cite web |first=Jon |last=Rosenthal |url=http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2015/08/interview-mories-gnaw-their-tongues-aderlating-etc/ |title=Interview: Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues, Aderlating, etc) |website=Invisible Oranges |date=6 August 2015 |access-date=10 December 2015}} Gnaw Their Tongues' full-length debut, titled Spit at Me and Wreak Havoc on My Flesh, was independently released in January 2006. The album comprised seven lengthy drone pieces which drew inspiration from black metal and utilized sampling. Immediately de Jong began issuing multiple albums within months of each other, establishing himself as a prolific composer and musician. In 2007 An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood was issued by Burning World Records and was critically well received.{{cite web |first=Max |last=Deneau |url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/gnaw_their_tongues-epiphanic_vomiting_of |title=Gnaw Their Tongues: An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood |publisher=Exclaim! |date=20 May 2008 |access-date=10 December 2015}}{{cite web |first=Ned |last=Raggett |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0000787535|pure_url=yes}}|title=Gnaw Their Tongues: An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood > Review |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=10 December 2015}}

L'arrivée de la terne mort triomphante was released in 2010 and saw de Jong adopting more dark ambient and orchestral influences into his music.{{cite web |first=Ned |last=Raggett |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0002026902|pure_url=yes}}|title=Gnaw Their Tongues: L' Arrivée de la Terne Mort Triomphante > Review |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=10 December 2015}} De Jong described the music as representing "an abstract visual idea of death: white, silent and solemn."{{cite web |first=Octavio |last=Ramos |title=Take Five: An Interview with Gnaw Their Tongues |publisher=Examiner.com |date=20 September 2010 }} Being composed around a concept, the music was the more planned out than any album previous.{{cite web |first=Martin |last=Perescis |url=http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/interviews/view/id/3578 |title=Gnaw Their Tongues – Eat Your Greens, Especially Broccoli |publisher=Lords of Metal |date=December 2010 |access-date=10 December 2015}}{{cite web |last=Apothecary |url=http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/interview.php?interview_id=720 |title=Gnaw Their Tongues Interview |publisher=Metal Storm |date=16 April 2015 |access-date=10 December 2015}} 2010's Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus returned to a more aggressive sound while concurrently moving away from distortion and retaining the dense orchestration of the previous album. De Jong admitted to being the most pleased with the album than any previous work, noting that the higher production values contributed to the album's success.{{cite web |first=Martin |last=Perescis |url=http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/interviews/view/id/4442 |title=Gnaw Their Tongues – The Usual Depravity of Course. |publisher=Lords of Metal |date=October 2012 |access-date=10 December 2015}} In January 2015 Collected Atrocities 2005–2008 was released, comprising digitally unavailable albums and previously unreleased compilation tracks.{{cite web |first=George |last=Pacheco |title=Crucial Blast Unearth Early Horror From Orchestral Noise Act Gnaw Their Tongues |publisher=Examiner.com |date=22 January 2015 }}

The project announced its ninth full-length album Hymns for the Broken, Swollen and Silent on vinyl, cassette and CD which was released on 9 December 2016 by Consouling Sounds, Tartarus Records and Crucial Blast respectively.{{cite web |url=http://consouling.be/album/gnaw-tongues-hymns-broken-swollen-silent-lp/ |title=Gnaw Their Tongues – Hymns for the Broken, Swollen and Silent (LP) |publisher=Consouling Sounds |date=7 November 2016 |access-date=8 November 2016 |archive-date=9 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109021815/http://consouling.be/album/gnaw-tongues-hymns-broken-swollen-silent-lp/ |url-status=dead }}

Discography

{{Main|Maurice de Jong discography}}

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Category:Dutch ambient music groups

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Category:Martial industrial groups

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