Gozu Enter Mad Oak Studios to Record New Album
Boston’s Gozu have already had a pretty busy summer, touring around their stopthrough at Rhüne Mountain Festival and taking part in the band-affiliated hometown underground fest Grub, Sweat & Beers last month. This past weekend, though, the four-piece entered Mad Oak Studios to begin recording their sixth album and the follow-up to 2023’s Remedy (review here), which the band have spent much of the last two years supporting live.
If it feels like a quick turnaround, that’s probably because the crater from Remedy is still steaming, but Gozu aren’t ones to let momentum slip or miss a chance to move forward. It’s particularly interesting that they’ve returned to Mad Oak Studios to work with Benny Grotto. Gozu‘s last three full-lengths — Remedy, 2018’s Equilibrium (review here) and 2016’s Revival (review here) — were recorded by Dean Baltulonis at Wild Arctic Studios in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Grotto helmed the two prior, 2013’s The Fury of a Patient Man (review here), 2010’s Locust Season (discussed here; review here). Considering the hard-edged style they’ve taken on over the course of the last decade working with Baltulonis, and the warmth both of Gozu‘s earliest LPs and Mad Oak‘s output more generally, I’ll be looking forward to how this re-pairing between band and producer works out.
The band have been doing updates on the socialwebs. They finished drums on Saturday. I don’t know how long they’ll actually be in or what the timeline is on the release, but the process has started. Here’s what they had to say:
“We are very excited to get in the studio at Mad Oak with Benny Grotto to record 8 songs for Metal Blade / Blacklight Media. Heavy AF and catchy as leprosy—this batch is loaded with riffs that stick and grooves that crush. Let’s get weird.”
– First day conquered. 3 songs down. Tomorrow we ride.
– Drums complete and @sethdeebo absolutely destroyed it!
GOZU is:
Marc Gaffney – guitar and vocals
Joe Grotto – bass
Doug Sherman – lead guitar
Seth Botos – drums
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http://gozu.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/gozu666
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http://www.blacklightmediarecords.com/
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