"Water Rite"

Here’s a foil (or reinforcement) for your midweek frustration: Gnaw is a New York quintet featuring former Khanate belligerent Alan Dubin. "Water Rite"-- the first philippic from their forthcoming second LP Horrible Chamber-- is a delightful seven-minute span of punishment. As drums splatter against a multi-dimensional electronic framework, crisscrossing howls and ghoulish utterances suggest Pere Ubu jamming with Wolf Eyes on the bow of a sinking ship. Dubin’s venomous speak-sing has lost nothing since Khanate's heyday, but with Gnaw, his stately menace is replaced by red-eyed paranoia. Seventh Rule releases Horrible Chamber October 15.