GRAVES AT SEA / SOURVEIN split LP

GRAVES AT SEA / SOURVEIN split LP

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*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   Available on both LP and digipack CD.
    Here's a great split mini-album pairing up two of the best sludge bands in the US, the recently revived Graves At Sea (now based out of Portland, OR and featuring current and former members of Uzala, Atriarch, Carol Ann, Laudanum, and Subarachnoid Space) and old-school road-dogs Sourvein, a band who started out as an offshoot of sludgecrust legends Buzzoven. Definitely noteworthy for fans of Graves, as this is one of the first new releases to come from the band since 2005, and both bands deliver exactly the sort of wasted, bone-crushing sludge you'd hope for.
    Two songs from Graves At Sea, "Betting On Black" and "Confession", both nihilistic blasts of evil, hateful witch-sludge, the guitarists laying down their massive, lurching riffage over the saurian backbeat, the singer's uniquely anguished screech cranking up the feral, demented vibe of this stuff a notch or two. Their sound is still a familiar one, the sort of sickening Sabbathian hate-sludge that a thousand other bands have been trying to master over the past two decades, but there's something about Graves At Sea that still makes 'em one of the best in this style, with a vitriolic edge that makes their stuff sound a hundred time meaner and more evil than most bands of this ilk. The little bits of almost Neurosis-esque atmosphere and jolts of wretched, disease-riddled blues that Graves weave into their drawn-out narcotized anthems and monstrous droning riffs are pretty great, and the feeling of desperation seething beneath these songs gives this a verisimilitude too many bands lack. This stuff is right up there with the likes of Warhorse, Grief and Bongzilla for me, fans of Graves At Sea's older stuff won't be disappointed.
    Sourvein follow that with three new songs of their own brand of bilious swampdoom, "Driffter", "Equinox" and "Follow The Light", all of 'em crawling like Saint Vitus on ketamine, flanged guitars threading their dazed melodies over the syrupy, blooze-addled crush. Front man Troy sounds like he's completely in orbit, belting out his killer strained howl though a haze of effects, and the whole recording has this weird spaced-out vibe, trippy and menacing while belting out some seriously catchy riffage, each song building from one pulverizing doom-laden groove into another. If there's one band that truly comes close to nailing the sickening, stoned-out vibe of classic Eyehategod, it's these guys, delivering an evil opiated groove and nihilistic aura about as flattening as the New Orleans masters.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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