Grace Disgraced
The Primal Cause: Womanumental ()
Wydane przez More Hate Productions/Code 7/Season Of MistRok wydania Kraj RussiaNapisał Flemming Gabin8
That Polina Berezko is at it again, and while the rest of Russia continues to fucken delude itself into thinking slam-death, and pagan/folk metal are worthwhile, she knows better. Seriously, Polina’s band owns the classic 90s death metal sound to a fault. Fucken bass-heavy, melodic, dark and ominous sounding with decipherable grunts and incredible guitar leads/solos. Holy fucken shit, dudes. I don’t care which fucken terrible retro-death metal is hot this week. Grace Disgraced is death metal, pure and simple. And our Polina? She’s grunting and growling her heart out. Sure, she might not be as fucken deep and intelligible as whatever dumb fuck discovered Matti Way this week, but “fucken br00dle and fucken sick, brah” is hardly what I consider fucken important, or good. I don’t care how fucken brutal, or heavy your band is. Come back to me when you know how to fucken write a song, asshat. Grace Disgraced write songs, great ones even. Not only that. “The Primal Cause” has a narrative about female empowerment, or something. I dunno. I don’t know who they based the girl on the cover on, but that’s some fucken random epic cleavage that would make Katerina Bardo envious. Just fucken saying. Anyway, these 7 songs are really fucken long, and filled with all sorts of interesting dynamics and tempo changes – and you won’t mind that Polina is constantly screaming her lungs out at you. I hear mid-era Death, “Tomb Of the Mutilated” Cannibal Corpse, “Ego Art” Altar and pre-“Spheres” Pestilence in a lot of this, but that could just be me. Oh yeah, did I mention that the bass guitar features really, really, really prominently in the mix here? Cos it does, and I’m fucken glad that somebody finally got the memo. The bass guitar and the kickdrums sound really fucken massive here. About as massive as Bardo’s chest, just saying. I get so tired of all these fucken plastic, sterile and bass-less death metal that has been really fucken popular for the last, I dunno, fucken 15 years or so. I mostly blame Origin, cos they are fucken stupid and overrated. Polina even briefly talks in ‘Panacea’ before doing her serpentine rasp/grunt, which is all sorts of sexy. There are some sounds effects, one track opens with tribal drumming and another has vocoder vocals – so “The Primal Cause” has a bit of everything. I didn’t, like, pay attention to the lyrics cos I can’t stop fucken staring at the ginormous cleavage of the chick on the cover, but I hope the story continues over the next record, or, like, whatever. Anyway, next to Scrambled Defuncts this is the only Russian death metal band worth paying attention to. Yeah.
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