History Music / Gorguts

* LastNoteNightmare, NothingIsScarier, and ScareChord: The ending of "Sweet Silence". It ends with a period of sustained silence punctuated by occasional uses of a slowed-down sample of the last chord of the song. Each time, the sample gets slightly lower in pitch and the time between uses of the sample increases. Several people have commented that it's one of the most terrifying parts of the album. This also counts as a case of MeaningfulTitle, since of course the silence is a rather large part of the reason the ending is so effective. (The song title may also be a ShoutOut to the Copenhagen studio in which Music/{{Metallica}} recorded several of their most acclaimed albums, including ''Music/RideTheLightning'' and ''Music/MasterOfPuppets'').

* LastNoteNightmare, NothingIsScarier, and ScareChord: The ending of "Sweet Silence". It ends with a period of sustained silence punctuated by occasional uses of a slowed-down sample of the last chord of the song. Each time, the sample gets slightly lower in pitch and the time between uses of the sample increases. Several people have commented that it's one of the most terrifying parts of the album.

** ''Colored Sands'' was overall more on the prog side, with the average song length being around seven minutes and the band acknowledging the influence of Music/{{Opeth}} and Music/PorcupineTree. It's also ''slightly'' LighterAndSofter musically than the band's previous work, but the bulk of the emphasis goes on ''slightly''; it's still plenty noisy and dissonant throughout (with the exception of the Music/DmitriShostakovich-inspired neoclassical composition "The Battle of Chamdo", which is still dissonant). Lyrically, it's even DarkerAndEdgier than the preceding two releases, with HumansAreBastards being a central theme of the work.

* UncommonTime: Plentiful, as is par for the course with TechnicalDeathMetal.

* IAmTheBand: Luc Lemay. However, this is PlayedWith as Lemay allows the other musicians to come up with their own parts for the songs starting with ''Colored Sands''.

* IAmTheBand: Luc Lemay

* BreatherEpisode: "The Battle of Chamdo" again, sort of. There are a few passages on ''Pleiades' Dust'' that serve similar purposes, particularly the one from about seventeen minutes into the piece until about twenty-two minutes into the piece.

* {{Instrumentals}}: "...and Then Comes Lividity", "Waste of Mortality", "Sweet Silence", "Testimonial Ruins", "The Battle of Chamdo", "Stranded Minds on the Shadow of Doubt".

** ''Colored Sands'' was overall more on the prog side.

* HumansAreBastards: This seems to be a central theme of ''Colored Sands''. Lemay has commented in interviews how utterly inoffensive the entire history of the Tibetan people has been; nonviolence and love towards one's enemies have been a central part of their teachings for centuries, and "they're not interested in the concepts of jealousy, domination, [or] megalomania". They have been rewarded by being subjected to torture, imprisonment, and other atrocities. Lemay questions both whether the Tibetan people can survive and what is fundamentally wrong with humanity that they have been treated in such a fashion. The concept relates to the ground being "colored by suffering" and the fact that "nobody puts a real foot down to help them and get the Chinese out of there".

* {{Bookends}}: Lyrically, ''Pleiades' Dust'' opens and closes with the couplet "Scornful dogma / Withering era". It also opens describing the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, and closes describing the fall of Baghdad in the thirteenth century. Both of these resulted in lengthy dark ages (the former of which were, of course, ''the'' Dark Ages).

* {{Mythology}}: Became their lyrical theme as of ''Obscura''.

In 2008, however, Lemay reformed the band with yet another new lineup. Within that time up till 2013, they had been working on new material, which was leaked 2 months in advance, with Label Season of Mist releasing a digital release a month after.

As of March 2014, John Longstreth is no longer a member, as his schedule with Origin was incompatible with that of Gorguts. Patrice Hamelin has been manning the kit live since 2011, and is now credited as an official member in the packaging of ''Pleiades' Dust''.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent[=/=]GenreAdultery: "The Battle of Chamdo" uses a string quartet instead of the usual distorted guitar/bass/drums instrumentation of death metal. It's still dissonant and creepy, though. "Clouded" also counts, being so slow in tempo that it could be considered a [[DoomMetal Death/Doom]] song.

* EpicRocking: Many of their songs, especially post-''Obscura''. ''Pleiades' Dust'' is a full EP comprised of one thirty-three-minute track; their longest standalone album tracks are "Clouded" (9:32) and "Absconders" (9:08).

** ''Pleiades' Dust'', while maintaining the noisy and weird sound of their last several releases, takes the prog influences UpToEleven by structuring the entire release as one song (though it contains seven discrete movements).

* BreatherEpisode: "The Battle of Chamdo" again, sort of.

* LoudnessWar: Played straight on the CD versions of ''Obscura'' and ''From Wisdom to Hate'' (both [=DR5=]), which is likely intended to make the sound of those albums even more dense and impenetrable, but averted on the LP versions (both of which are [=DR10=] in the War on Music pressings, and probably at similar ranges on the Season of Mist ones). Also averted on ''Colored Sands'' and ''Pleiades' Dust'' (respectively [=DR9 and DR8=] on their CD versions), which probably isn't much of a surprise to anyone familiar with Colin Marston's mastering on other bands' works.

As of March 2014, John Longstreth is no longer a member, as his schedule with Origin was incompatible with that of Gorguts. Patrice Hamelin will be manning the kit for all upcoming tours, but it's not clear as to whether he'll join as a full-time member or not.

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* Patrice Hamelin – drums (2011-present)

* EpicRocking: Many of their songs, especially post-''Obscura''. ''Pleiades' Dust'' is a full EP comprised of one 30+ minute track; their longest standalone album tracks are "Clouded" (9:32) and "Absconders" (9:08).

* LoudnessWar: Played straight on the CD versions of ''Obscura'' and ''From Wisdom to Hate'', which is likely intended to make the sound of those albums even more dense and impenetrable, but averted on the LP versions. Also averted on ''Colored Sands'', which probably isn't much of a surprise to anyone familiar with Colin Marston's mastering on other bands' works.

* ConceptAlbum: ''Colored Sands'' explores Tibet and its relation to the outside world.

* AvantGardeMetal

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to what would follow, ''Considered Dead'' and too a lesser extent, ''The Erosion of Sanity'' are very traditional death metal, as opposed to the band's later work.

* RevolvingDoorBand