Odyssey to the Gallows, by Slice The Cake

Odyssey to the Gallows

by Slice The Cake

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Sham3nRav3n It is heart-wrenching, gut pulling music.
It waxes and wanes as the tides. Pulling and pushing you, washing over you, it bears as hard as a crashing wave.
It gives no quarrel and allows no quarter, it smashes over you. It is magnificent raw power.

David Fischer An intense 28-minute journey to the gallows. OttG is both a solemn and serious preambel to one of the best full-length albums of our time, filled to the brim with grandiosely staged ambience. The lyrics are, as someone already pointed out, of superb quality. Additionally, Gareth's vocal delivery seethes with anger and despair. Chapeau!

Alex Jesus Slice The Cake proved once more how good they musically were by releasing this album. I feel like Gareth's writing is at its best here. It feels like an out-of-body experience.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Odyssey to the West (2023 Remaster), Live At Home, Odyssey to the Gallows, Odyssey to the West, The Exile Part II - The City of Destruction (Single), Stone and Silver Part I - The Mountains of Man (Single), Other Slices, The Man With No Face, and 1 more. , and , .

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Serving as the introduction to the Odyssey duology, "Odyssey to the Gallows" blends spoken poetry (with a decidedly Shakespearean and Biblical edge,) with ambience, noise music, and hints of effervescent, churning metal.

It is a visceral, emotionally charged journey into the blackened heart of the Odyssey's titular Pilgrim that explores love, theology, guilt, remorse and a myriad of other weighty subjects and themes before spitting you out on the other side, ready and prepared to scale the Holy Mountain that its companion album "Odyssey to the West" is so deeply fixated with.

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released April 1, 2016

Gareth Mason - Words, Vocals, Concept
Jonas Johansson - Manipulations, Mastering

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