GRAVE (Swe): “Into the Grave” Cd 1991 Century Media

1 - Deformed 
                          2 - In Love 3 - For Your God 4 - Obscure Infinity 5 
                          - Hating Life 6 - Into the Grave 7 - Extremely Rotten 
                          Flesh 8 - Haunted 9 - Day of Mourning 10 - Inhuman 11 
                          - Banished to Live

No this time this is not a demo, and I also know

I have promised not to make reviews until the zine4

is out, but… I couldn’t really resist reviewing

this. I have heard some kids in town proclaiming

they like Swedish Death metal and when asked which

bends they preferred they say IN FLAMES and DARK

TRANQUILLITY. Ugh, what a fist in my oversized belly.

Well for those who like real Death Metal this album

should be the bible. My absolute favorite SDM album

aside with CARNAGE’s “Dark Recollections”

and DISMEMBER’s “Pieces” Ep, this album

is all but no-nonsense straight in your face BRUTAL-as-fuck

Death. Don’t listen to ppl suggesting you ENTOMBED’s

LEft Hand Path, becouse THIS is the ultimate in

violence among the legendary bands of ending eighties/beginning

nineties. Into the Grave is definitely GRAVE’s swangsong,

it is structurally perfect, and with a sound that

is exactly that of bones being crushed, the personal

trademark of the fabled Swedish sound taken to the

excess. Despite many of the bands back then used

to be raspy in their vocals, GRAVE had this particular

ultra-guttural approach, with massive, big sound

saturated with basses and a bit of evocative kb

in the title track (really genius stuff). Main this

that can be said about GRAVE to distinguish them

from the aforementioned and the likes of UNLEASHED,

HETSHEADS, NIHILIST a.s.o. is their sober, chunky

sound. Listening to this album really makes me clenching

the theet and close my fists, it really seeps HATE

from evey single riff. I am not going to discuss

much more, this is a classic beyond words. If you

don’t have it in your collection, you’re a cunt.