GRAVE UPHEAVAL / MANTICORE split 12"

GRAVE UPHEAVAL / MANTICORE split 12"

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(Nuclear War Now! Productions)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  That recent self-titled album from Australia's Grave Upheaval was one of the most oppressive sounding death metal albums in recent memory, a massive, murk-drenched hallucination of subterranean death metal chaos that often bordered on becoming a kind of blasting death-noise, and which has proved to be just too goddamn amorphous for many death metal fans. Personally, I fucking loved it, and I've been lusting for more of the band's suffocating deathmurk ever since. The band hasn't released much else, and their split with Manticore is so far the only prior release I've been able to track down, but it delivers more of that amazing abyssal ambience and churning formless crush in spades, matched by the savage blackened death of their compatriots in Manticore and adorned in murky abstract artwork from Tim Grieco (Antediluvian).
   While they share personnel with both Portal and Impetuous Ritual, Grave Upheavals' brand of fetid, impossibly dense death metal is really in a league of its own, though fans of the chaotic, disorienting death metal horror of those bands will find some common ground here. The band opens their side with a blast of percussive power, titanic drums slowly coming together as the band's blackened swarm of droning tremolo riffing begins to whip itself into a tornadic blur. The sound is as abstract as their latest self titled album, and just as oppressive in it's vast, bottomless murkiness. Shifting from that crushing, doom-laden intro, the first of these two untitled tracks soon erupts into violent, blasting chaos, gong-like percussion echoing as the rhythm section lurches into a loose, churning backbeat before unleashing a blizzard of blastbeats, the sound shifting from slower, grinding heaviness into more frenzied, inchoate noise, and strange moans drift beneath the pitch-black oceanic churn. The second track is a slower, more lumbering abomination, a crushing sauropod dirge, guitars tuned down to bone-rattling frequencies, a heavy layer of black fog cloaking the band's vast tectonic rumble. Crucial stuff if you're as addicted to Grave Upheaval's abysmal, noise-drenched death metal ambience as I am...
   Over on their side, Ohio charnel maniacs Manticore deliver two songs of their bestial blackened death and raving genocide visions, "Unleashing Unholy Temptations" and "Insemination Of The Sycophant". An array of demonic voices are layered across the band's demonic cacophony, sneering hatred and slavering bestial hunger fusing together into a hallucinatory whole, shrieking over the band's thrashing primitive assault. Blistering death metal erupts into grinding chaos, the chainsaw riffs locking into stripped-down murderous grooves, the songs slipping into slower eruptions of rabid filth and barbaric, doom-laden heaviness, bringing a heavy dose of discordant horror to their Archgoat / Beherit-influenced deathblast.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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