GRAVE UPHEAVAL self-titled 2xLP

GRAVE UPHEAVAL self-titled 2xLP

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(Nuclear War Now! Productions)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
Australia just keeps crushing. Part of the same incestuous death metal underground gurgling beneath the streets of Queensland, Australia and inhabited by Impetuous Ritual and Portal (and featuring a member from both), Grave Upheaval delivered one of my favorite death metal albums of 2013 with their self-titled debut, a monstrous seven track blast of fetid, cavernous heaviness that descends into hitherto unexplored depths of abstracted blackened doomdeath. It is, in fact, one of the most outré albums of old-school death metal I've been listening to over the past year. Initially released on vinyl by Nuclear War Now! in a heavyweight gatefold jacket with six pages of murky, dim imagery bound into the spine, Grave Upheaval's debut presents a vision of swarming idiot chaos and squirming vermiform horror set to an unbelievably murky and noisy form of death metal; the tracks bear no titles, each one a nameless, nearly shapeless mass of rumbling, impossibly distorted and reverb-drenched riffage that transforms into fast-swirling fogs of bone-rattling distortion. The bass guitar gives what little structure and form it can to the music with his sludgy, slow moving bass lines, everything moving in a sickly black haze of disease and rot, the vocals a ghastly asthmatic roar that stretches across the suffocating din, sometimes shifting into eerie distant prayer-like chanting or weird, anguished keening.
Over the course of this album, the band evolves into an almost Disembowelment-like rumble of glacial heaviness, but the guitars are dialed out into an almost incomprehensible, inchoate blur of extreme low end rumble, the sound further infested with some faint ghostly synthesizer textures that shimmer across the rumbling subterranean heaviness like smears of greasy color on an oil slick. The way that the guitars sit in the mix, especially when Grave Upheaval really start to speed things up into one of their chaotic blastscapes, is almost more like something from the realm of harsh industrial noise, a Rita-like rumble of distorted low-end that dispenses with any sort of structure for long stretches of time, but will then suddenly shift into a devastating doomdeath riff out of that swirling rumbling maelstrom. Like on the third track, where the formless black fog suddenly comes together into a moment of striking heaviosity before it all eventually drops back into the churning subterranean murk. The middle track on the b-side is another standout, taking on a droning, ritualistic atmosphere redolent with the stench of ruptured, upturned graves, a massive churning hypno-crush that takes on a truly psychedelic quality. Again, though, take away those ghastly screams and the plodding drums and what you would have remaining would almost be like HNW, a mass of rumbling distortion spreading out in all directions. The third side features one long track, possibly the album's heaviest, a choking fog of hissing percussion and tectonic bomb-blast drums, grinding ultra downtuned guitars coalescing out of vast oceans of bass-heavy reverberation, a mutant strain of evil Incantation-esque death metal blurred and deformed into a black soup of swarming crypt noise, utterly and wholly crushing. Fans of the noisier, more experimental and abstract fringes of death metal are the ones most likely to engage with Grave Upheaval's awesome subterranean din, and the band has already garnered a bunch of comparisons to Portal for its abstract, almost ambient approach. But this possesses a monstrous sound all its own, like some fractured take on Disembowelment's slow motion deathdoom that has been blackened beyond belief and mixed into a deliberately murky, droning sea of sickening, pitch-black sound.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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