Not to be confounded with the almighty Swedish Rockers, this GRAVEYARD comes out from Barcelona (Spain) and is into old school Death Metal, there's indeed just the name in common...
But this band is not new at all in the scene and has extensively played live after the relase of their first album, including lots of gigs in Spain with great international bands and several dates abroad in Portugal, Sweden and Italy.
But this band is not new at all in the scene and has extensively played live after the relase of their first album, including lots of gigs in Spain with great international bands and several dates abroad in Portugal, Sweden and Italy.
First thing to be noticed is the exceptionnal cover artwork by Matt Car who also previously did works for AUTOPSY, COFFINS, HOODED MENACE, etc...
Old school means obviously influences from the kings and precusors of the genre but which school precisely ??? he, he ! from Florida ? from NY ? from Stockholm ? from ... ? well, I think the best would be to precise this with names, think about a mix between "left and path" (ENTOMBED) and "realm of chaos" (BOLT THROWER) and you've got then 95% of GRAVEYARD's sound ! something pretty hard to imagine before you've ever listened to it, especially considering that this is a real masterpiece we've got here ! indeed in more than 20 years, who has succeeded in presenting such an amazing mixture with talent ? one hand is largely enough to count them ...
Of course the swedish sound is something pretty easy to imagine, those famous "chainsaw guitars", ultra low and ripping as hell, haunting with eerie melodies, but some purists could even make a little difference and say that GRAVEYARD sounds slightly more like NIHILIST than ENTOMBED, understand more sinister and creepy, not standardized by the Sunlight sound... Where I find a real and singular interest in this (too) short affair is the reference to the 2nd album of the english warmasters (maybe the album I've the most listened in my whole life), highlighting a relentlessly agressive and desperate rage with growled and hideous vocals, pounding drums and a constantly menacing heaviness.
6 songs for 24 minutes, no fillers only pure killers, but still this isn't enough at all guys, that's honestly the only reproach I could make ! Check this out blindly, this is a top-notch release and thinking it came out on Pulverised rds is all in all pretty logical... http://www.pulverised.net/
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