[2] They obtained an excellent live reputation in the hardcore scene of the late 80s and received predominantly positive reviews.
[3][4][5] After Pieter de Swart (guitar) and Martin van Kleef (bass) left their band Disgust, they started a new outfit with Danny Arnold Lommen (drums) who previously had played with Pandemonium.
Very soon van Kleef left the band and was replaced by Rob Frey (bass) who works under the pen name Marij Hel.
Although particularly de Swart wrote a lot of the early Gore songs, Frey is considered the creative mastermind behind the band.
Producer Theo van Eenbergen excellently captured the band's sound that shows a flagrant disregard for any kind of sonic restrained.
The cover of the album shows a photograph of a raw pig's heart pierced by a samurai sword.
The vulgar outbreaks of violent images and obscenities give insight into the negative, pessimist world view of the band.
The stark, direct photo, again taken by Notermans, visualizes perfectly the hard and cold aggression that fuels the music on the record.
The album received predominantly positive reviews internationally, sold fairly well and is seen by many fans as the essential Gore record.
Wrede (The Cruel Peace) was recorded in August 1988 in at „As The Grass Is Two Asses High“ studios in Weesp, NL.
Wrede was the last collaboration of Gore and Theo van Eenbergen, who would work closely with Henry Rollins in the following years.
The epic compositions, running between 15 and 25 minutes, are more mellow, mature, melodic and differentiated than those of the earlier albums.
Considered by many fans and critics to be Gore's opus magnum and the most influential album of the band, the monolithic, idiosyncratic album failed in achieving wider recognition, and the responses in listeners and critics fell short of expectations.
Drummer Danny Arnold Lommen joined Caspar Brötzmann Massaker and stayed with them until they broke up in 1995.
[8] Guitarist Frank Stroobants played in several bands after GORE and releases solo projects up until today.
There is still no singing but the songs are riddled with numerous samples of absurd spoken scenes in several languages and sounds of nature.
The spoken scenes were recorded with a twenty-person ensemble called "The United Voices From The House Of Suspicion".
With Dutch pop singer Henk Westbroek four songs for an EP were recorded in June and December 1995.
Westbroek had several mainstream hits with his band Het Goede Doel in the 80s and was regarded as one of the Netherlands' most successful musicians.
Messback releases the CD as Gore & Henk: Voor Nu De Eeuwigheid in early 1996.
Mest 694’3 – The 10 Ultimate Hart Gore Rhythm Tracks contains Material that Frey had written already in 1994.
Gore recorded the material in the Frey / van Reede / Bardo Maria line up in January and December 1995 at Total Recall Studios in Venlo.
The Song In The Name Of Evil, Rotten & Gore was accompanied by guest musicians R. Yen (keyboards) and Gino Taihuttu (mouth harp).
The live songs were recorded June 27, 1993 at Knitting Factory, New York, when Gore performed there for the New Music Seminar.
Furthermore, there is a Version of In The Name OF Evil, Rotten & Gore performed by the renowned Metropole Orkest, that was recorded live in February 1997.
Rob Frey joins Dutch folk rock band De Nieuwe Blijdschap in which he plays guitar.
A studio left over of The Hunt that was not used for the original release of Hart Gore; a quite interesting very early version of Death Has Come, recorded live with Pieter de Swart on guitar; and a practice room recording of Gore destroying David Bowie's Station to Station.
Each album was issued as a double vinyl LP including a booklet with lyrics, rare pictures and detailed liner notes by Rob Frey.
[18] In April 2018 Gore announced a reunion in the lineup Rob Frey, Johan van Reede and Bardo Koolen.
That album contains ten songs from the 1992 double CD Lifelong Deadline, the production of which the band considered a failure.