These are the collected recordings from the little known Boston art-sludge band that included Clifford Meyer among it's ranks, whom you may know from his

current bands Red Sparowes and Isis. While there are clearly some shadows of the majestic post-metal and post-rock of his current bands that can be heard in

The Gersch's weird sludginess, these recordings from the mid to late 1990's are primarily a raw assault of vaguely sinister, psychedelic garage doom. Heavy,

post-Sabbath dirge with a singer howling from the far end of a wind tunnel collides with bombastic mutant classic rock riffs, weird instrumental passages of

crossover thrash, feedbacking drone rock, punishing "Holy Terror" metalcore, angular math/noise rock, and trippy tape drones. Kudos to Tortuga Records for

documenting The Gersch's output, as this totally pre-dates the whole artsy post-metal thing that's beein getting so much attention lately and delivers 10

tracks of genuinely crushing tuneage. The final track is a noisy, sludgy live cover of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young's "Ohio". Recommended! Comes packaged in

a cool minimalist white digipack illustrated in old engravings reminiscent of Albrecht D�rer.