Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Gandiva 7"

Here's the first release on Devils Head Recordings, the label done by Adam Dutkiewicz of Aftershock (RIP) and Killswitch Engage. This 7" by Gandiva was released in 1997. Gandiva was a pretty short-lived band from East Longmeadow, MA, from what I gathered they started sometime in 1996 and ended in late 1997, after doing only 2 demo's and this 7", besides compilations. I don't have either demo unfortunately, but apparently the 3 songs on this 7" are re-recorded songs off the 2nd demo. Either way, this is a really good & solid 7". Solid '90s metalcore like Aftershock, with the second song being borderline emo-metal like New Day Rising. They also have multiple members doing vocals, sometimes doing their own thing at the same time, which works really well for them.

Judging by the band-name and the thanks-list, the band or some of its members might have been krishna-conscious, but I'm not sure. I couldn't find too much info on this band or this 7" unfortunately. I also have a compilation 7", 'Vibratory Disturbance 2', that they're on with a song that's not on this 7", I might post it at some time in the future. Members went on to bands such as Year Of Our Lord, Barrit, Cave-In and Hallraker. And I'm sorry about the pop in 'Searcher', I couldn't get rid of it.

Update: I posted the 'Vibratory Disturbance 2' compilation 7" here.

Gandiva - s/t 7"

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this!! Anyway, can you find album from One Last Sin 'When Guilt Reigns' and Family Of Dog (H-8000) 'Self Titled'?

Anonymous said...

Cooll Please upload more disc of this band
is so cool!

i am from chile ,great blog !

xCHIPxSEM said...

Great post Edwin. Been wanting to hear this

Anonymous said...

awesome..thanks man, ive been looking for this for years

Anonymous said...

Please reupload this!!

XhcnoirX said...

Re-upped!

Anonymous said...

Please reup and if you can, together with compilation. ThanXXX

XhcnoirX said...

Re-upped them both. Enjoy!

Anonymous said...

It was fast!! Thanxxx, dude!