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Grave - As Rapture Comes
Release: 2006Label: Century Media
By: Anders
Posted: Aug 15, 2006
The Swedish death metal legend is once again ready with a blow to our skulls! After the quite disappointing comeback album "Back From The Grave" and then very good "Fiendish Regression" I was looking forward to this one, as it seemed the band had found the renewed and needed energy while writing the last album. And it didn't take many spins to get this album settled, and Grave do set the record straight with this album, that's for sure, they mean serious business!
As a straight forward attack, Grave has done what they do best, they have taken a step back, and delves into a more old school sound and approach, compared to what we have heard since the comeback album. The production of the album is heavy and packed with power. The record is recorded in studio Soulless and mixed in The Abyss by Peter Tägtgren. A genuine Swedish death metal production, with skull crushing walls of guitars, and what guitar work, great catchy and chugging riffs and ripping solos, just check out the ones in 'Epic Obliteration', a song that goes from slow and heavy, to fast and brutal, killer song writing and a great use of the pace shift. The drumming is well delivered too, effective and hard hitting, nice shifts between mid-paces and blasting, and nice footwork, and on top of that well varied and technical cymbal work. Mainman Ola Lindgren's vocals do also become better from album to album, and he's starting to reach the range of Jürgen Sandström who controlled the vocals in Grave's early days, and that really suits the band and music. A deep as fuck guttural and evil growl from the nether depths of hell, that's how we like it!
Grave is and has always been Grave, and when they've tried to go outside that box, it hasn't turned out that well. "As Rupture Comes" is a Grave album all the way through, displaying all the best features of the band, fierce and brutal song writing, ripping guitars, thundering drums and pounding bass lines. This is a sure buy for all into death metal done the real way, this album for sure does bring rapture!
As a straight forward attack, Grave has done what they do best, they have taken a step back, and delves into a more old school sound and approach, compared to what we have heard since the comeback album. The production of the album is heavy and packed with power. The record is recorded in studio Soulless and mixed in The Abyss by Peter Tägtgren. A genuine Swedish death metal production, with skull crushing walls of guitars, and what guitar work, great catchy and chugging riffs and ripping solos, just check out the ones in 'Epic Obliteration', a song that goes from slow and heavy, to fast and brutal, killer song writing and a great use of the pace shift. The drumming is well delivered too, effective and hard hitting, nice shifts between mid-paces and blasting, and nice footwork, and on top of that well varied and technical cymbal work. Mainman Ola Lindgren's vocals do also become better from album to album, and he's starting to reach the range of Jürgen Sandström who controlled the vocals in Grave's early days, and that really suits the band and music. A deep as fuck guttural and evil growl from the nether depths of hell, that's how we like it!
Grave is and has always been Grave, and when they've tried to go outside that box, it hasn't turned out that well. "As Rupture Comes" is a Grave album all the way through, displaying all the best features of the band, fierce and brutal song writing, ripping guitars, thundering drums and pounding bass lines. This is a sure buy for all into death metal done the real way, this album for sure does bring rapture!
Rating: 8/10
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Review of "Fiendish Regression"
Distributed in Denmark and kindly supplied by EMI
Review of "Fiendish Regression"
Distributed in Denmark and kindly supplied by EMI
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