Wednesday, December 9, 2009

grievous - one breath from winter + erebus


"THESE RIFFS ARE THICKER THAN TONY IOMMI'S MOUSTACHE!"
-- Superhero Artist Management


"One Breath from Winter" Reviews:

...dark and heavy all around with good production, interesting and hard hitting songs, and cool artwork. Heavy chugging, post-hardcore romp through the swamp ...a sludgier version of Cult of Luna, the music sets both an epic atmosphere and a layer of filth to bury you under ...hardcore bellowing and screaming and a groove to keep you lurching .... crawling, slow tempo with the infamous double bass roll ...solid molasses soaked slab of heavy, dark and slow

... slow, heavy and painful... like a steamroller over children

... the viscous qualities of sludge and the ambience of doom but w/ an occasional classic metal riff. ....doomy vibe, sludges speed, and metal trappings RIYL: Weedeater, Jumbos Killcrane, Ufomammut, Buried at Sea

.... dense as overgrown swamp land, with the riffs low-hanging and the vocals scraping gravel as they growl and gurgle along. Drum hits flap through songs like gigantic bat wings, melodies clang like bells for the dead and the doomed... channels nefarious alien life forms including a bit of William S. Burroughs, whose sampled vocals add an extra eerie edge

... fantastic doom, with deep throbbing bass and wahed out chugaholic stoner guitar, deep echoing drums and insanely sick vocals... every curdling scream.... takes the listener on a great journey.... like being lost in some foreboding north western woods, in mid winter



"Erebus" Reviews:

... a tight professional unity, with a strong emphasis on a somewhat filthy down-tuned mood and feel. The sound quality and production is far from lacking throughout all five tracks... vocals are strong, brilliant, consistently angry... incredible sense of dread they produce musically... intensity of the tales they unfold before us.

... slices of what it feels like to be alive in a world that glistens on the surface, but seethes and boils underneath... a world which appears perfect and pristine, but secretly writhes in agony, dirty, unclean.... dark and dirty and unforgiving

... Pulsing, pounding, annihilating, attacking with honesty; fully prepared to rip and render any false holiness limp, helpless, begging for mercy in the face of the one with eyes of pure blackness and complete knowledge.

Eerie, disturbing and heavy unlike the mere cookie cutter stomp and growl clutter too common today... drives like a 62 Chrysler 500 with 6 holes in the muffler, doing 45 on a dusty desert road. Sometimes, they may slow to pick up a lonely hitch hiker, then like in a horror movie... all hell breaks loose

chug-a-holic, anti social and disconcerting doom.... Dark, down-tuned, blues-driven riffs with vocals that emit like curdling caustic fumes from the forgotten bogs of the dark lands. The subject matter of 'Erebus' is mostly a reflection of a frightened america with samples, clips, apocalyptic drones, undertones and musings.... soundtrack to the "end of days"... Musically depressing, with not a lot to make you feel good about life, or get you motivated.... fuses said doom with a black metal mentality... with the slowest blast beats I've ever heard.... file it next to Hellhammer, Yob and Burning Witch."


one breath from winter + erebus

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