GRAVE

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: menacing rough intense death metal

this glorious longplay debut [1991] by historical Scandinavian four-piece, masterfully recorded at Sunlight Studio with Tomas Skogsberg capturing the essence of new born subgenre, featuring the classic line-up with the growling monster Jorgen Sandström, is an absolute milestone, a seminal recording of ferocious, downtuned, gloomy and intense Swedish death metal - extreme music would not be as profound and menacing without such timeless classics as Deformed, Extremely Rotten Flesh, the title track and all other songs with seriously scaring effect, meanwhile essentially straightforward flow of the tracks is often and very tastefully enriched by atmospheric solos, giving the music a heavy sense of gloom and mournful mood that blends organically with its underground character, leaving a long-lasting feeling of destruction; recent French black 180g vinyl edition with front cover UV gloss and pro-printed lyric inner sleeve is limited to 400 units