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The Core

by GOLLUM

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1.
The Calm Before 05:16
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The Core 04:04
3.
Ominous Winds 05:03
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Blacksmith (Summoning Wrath) 03:07
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Diggin' (f/ Randy Blythe & Dixie) 04:31
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Amor Fati 01:15
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Darkhouse 03:45
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The Burden Of Ubiquitous Scars 04:22
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Schadenfreude 03:28
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Carven Bones 03:46
11.
Omens 05:24

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"...music this different that's able to fire on all cylinders is the equivalent of expanding ones mind without the drugs."
-- Way Too Loud  


"...an incredible album full of hauntingly exotic metal tunes and outright death metal  bludgeon."
-- Away-Team 

"This album is a brutal metal experience similar to something you might hear from Mastodon, possibly Isis, but then take those sounds and fly warp speed so far left of center that you're fluttering around in your own dimension. Mixed with the traditional metal guitar tones and rhythmic soundings, we have Gollum experimenting with bizarre song structures and seemingly random mood swings that create a truly wondrous listening experience. "
--Ripple Effect 


"While it certainly falls into the metal category, the band throws everything from vintage thrash riffs, sludge filled doom riffs and vicious vocal snarls at the listener and they make it work perfectly. Think early Megadeth meets Eyehategod..."
-- Unbound


"The Core is one of the most complex, sonic-scraped albums of the year because you 
literally have no idea where these guys are coming from, much less where they’re wading towards through their distorted furrows..."
-- About.com 

“…churning cauldron of driving riffage…sludge and heavy groove…an overwhelmingly positive treatment…obvious touchstones include early Mastodon…Acid Bath…Soilent Green…”
--Shawn Macomber, Decibel (June 2009)

“A gooey cake of psychedelic sludgecore hot out of the Buzz-Oven”
– Revolver (July 2009)



... By summer’s end, the band was almost finished with the album and getting excited about what the future held for them. Tragically, a few weeks after he completed ‘The Core’ drum tracks, founding member Hunter Holland suddenly died of an apparent heart attack on September 10, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The surviving members were crushed by Holland’s passing and put everything on hold while they pondered the loss of their brother and the future of the band without one of its integral members.

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released April 11, 2009

Hunter Holland (RIP)- Drums
Frank Stroehmer - Guitar
Serge Stroehmer - Bass
Shawn Corbett -Vocals


"Diggin'" featuring guest appearance from Randy Blythe (Lamb Of God) and Dixie Dave Collins (Weedeater).

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GOLLUM Wilmington, North Carolina


"...an incredible album full of hauntingly exotic metal tunes and outright death metal  bludgeon."
-- Away-Team 

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