Labels: Concubine – Donnabavosa – Shove – Sons Of Vesta – Wallace
Review by: Kunal Nandi
These guys get a lot of Breach references, which I’d say was more evident in what the guitars are doing than anything else. There’s a pleasantly gritty harshness to them, with much unmelodic gnashing of riffs, which is fun. Rhythmically however, Gerda have far more in common with the syncopated, flailing, waltz-time approach of fellow screamo countrymen La Quiete and Raein. This means it never gets to be as relentlessly driving as you might expect, but they don’t do it all the time, with some of the shorter tracks descending into chaotic flurries in line with those atonal guitar scrapes. Somewhere between Breach and screamo then.