Gorch Fock are a 7 piece heavy rock outfit from Austin, TX that incorporate 2 drummers, two guitarists, a bass player, a electronics/effects/baritone guitar/vocalist and a trombonist/vocalist. Deriving their name from a 19th century German naval training vessal, Gorch Fock's polyrhythmic and undulating songs drive with gale force. The multiple drums, electronics and four guitar players combine to create a thick, layered, and textural sound that shifts dynamically like tides. Employing delay on both his trombone and vocals, Joey Ficklin, adds a dirge like quality to the music that is reminiscent of foghorns in the bay and sea shanties in the bar. For fans of experimental, heavy, psychadelic rock-"Maniacal and explosive and wickedly confident" -Monika Kendrick The Chicago ReaderGORCH FOCK,"Shirts vs. Skins":"Guttural guitar stampedes through a double-drum ditch while a Boeing trombone flies overhead" -Christopher Gray The Austin Chronicle"... from Scratch Acid to the Butthole Surfers to Ed Hall and the Cherubs...Aural assault fanatics can now add Gorch Fock to that storied, grimy list"-Joe Gross The Austin American Statesman"And Gorch Fock are an intense band. Even their quieter moments-- mostly in the spaces before the songs really get going -- are fraught with uncomfortable rhythms and vaguely disquieting samples: a woman reading what sounds like a religious tract, a snippet of a Vietnam-era antiwar ditty. Album closer"Suicide and/or Packed with Satan" features an equilibrium-disturbing whine that's absolute murder on a hungover morning."-Sarah Zachrich SPLENIDEZINE.COM"The band plays, abrasive, non-commercial music that recalls the glory days of SST records in its combination of sludgy guitar riffage and avante-weird attitude...the overall effect is oddly menacing." - Max Price Greenville, SC Metro BeatPackaged in an earth friendly cardboard cover and hand screenprinted by bearded lady printing - Austin, TX