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Old Man Gloom release ‘fake’ album to press, announce two ‘real’ ones

By | Published on Friday 7 November 2014

Old Man Gloom

So, you may be aware that metal band Old Man Gloom – featuring Aaron Turner formerly of Isis, Nate Newton from Converge and Cave In’s Caleb Scofield – have a new album coming out, called ‘The Ape Of God’. You may also have read a review of said album. A glowing review probably. Journalists who received pre-release copies seem to have liked it. Really liked it.

But here’s the thing, that album that all the journalists have been listening to isn’t even that actual album. It’s a fake! A fake that the band recorded to combat leaks. Instead, they have recorded two other albums, both also called ‘The Ape Of God’, which the band will release next week.

Confused? Look, it’s simple. Old Man Gloom have recorded three albums with the same title, two of which will be released next week, and one of which is a ‘fake’ album, even though it was recorded by Old Man Gloom and on which, they admit, they “spent a lot of time”.

In a Facebook post yesterday, the band said: “Guess what, assholes. ‘The Ape Of God’ is two entirely different albums. If you downloaded some leaked shit, you don’t have either. You have some bogus version we gave to press, cuz we knew those jerks would leak it (if you reviewed that fake record positively, thank you. We’re just THAT good). We will always trick you. We will always trick you. We will always trick you”.

They added: “To be fair we, Old Man Gloom, spent a lot of time on the music and putting together the ‘fake’ version of the album. It is still music we believe in and 100% stand behind. We’re not punishing anyone, and if you had fun with the record as we have with everything that has gone into it, then we’ve done our job. And also, anyone that did their research on Old Man Gloom should know that we’re pranksters who ARE GOING TO FUCK WITH EVERYONE ALL THE TIME”.

So now I don’t know what to think. Maybe the ‘fake’ album is actually the ‘real’ album (or one of them, at least) and they’re just fucking with us again like they apparently do “ALL THE TIME”. And if they’re not, what if it turns out that the ‘fake’ album is better than the two ‘real’ ones?

And what does all of this achieve anyway? Did it highlight the problem of journalists leaking things all over the place? That there are one or two bad eggs amongst our number who will totally counter-productively leak the material that they are tasked with writing about? Converge already made that point once before, I believe.

Whatever, it’s worked out as quite good promotion for ‘The Ape Of God’, I guess. Because look how much I just wrote about them for the first time ever.

Anyway, here is the song ‘The Lash’, which you shouldn’t listen to because it is fake:



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