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Deadpanist This is simply an aural orgasm for any death doom fan. Not only cavernous and filthy but a dense occult and esoteric gasping atmosphere that will make you fall into a ritualistic gaze. Had this on cd for a while but why rip it when it's BC Friday? Top 5 all-time fave bands in the genre. All of their releases are top notch. Plug in, tune in, drop out...

Redd A creature stirring, in the deepest crypt of far away abandoned Catacombs. There you will find only death, and the screams of something long gone from the world of men. It's taloned claw claws at the damp darkness, then it HOWLS!
That is what you will hear here.

YomaBarr Roll me in tar and feathers and kick me out of the community for not getting this earlier. I could have listened to it for four years already.

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Grave Upheaval opened the black womb with their 2010 demo and further excavated the catacombs with the following split EP releases and 2013 debut LP. This latest offering—the band’s first release in five years—demonstrates evolution without abandoning the signature elements that have defined its sound thus far. Once again, Grave Upheaval creates a dense, chthonic, death-laden atmosphere, and this album preserves the air of mystery and anonymity surrounding the band. There is no discernible album title, just an array of sigils scrawled on the cover and throughout the booklet. Grave Upheaval emerges from the shadows, albeit only slightly, with clearer production than previous efforts but with a sound that remains draped in malevolent ambience. The same hazy, hallucinatory effect that characterizes all of the band’s previous work remains intact, but the tonality of the riffs and structural elements of the songs are more vividly apparent. The sound is spacious, yet enclosed, like terrified screams reverberating through halls of death. Compositionally, the album shows the expansive sweep of Grave Upheaval’s abilities: long, slow, and sombre Death Metal punctuated with passages of savage ferocity, faithless movements among (un)holy sites with a devotion to nothing except the majesty of lifelessness. Structural and temporal inversions abound, with the guitars played furiously in comparison to the slow motion of the percussion, or vice versa, giving the songs a stretched-out effect, like ghostly movements captured in time-lapse photography. The compositional and stylistic variations are arranged in such a way as to keep the album intriguing and unpredictable, making this one of the most impressive Death Doom albums since diSEMBOWELMENT’s “Transcendence into The Peripheral.” Perhaps what most sets Grave Upheaval apart from their contemporaries is the ability to cultivate atmosphere, making the record more experiential for the listener. It is not a passive setting; the music engulfs the listener in an environment, one that is oppressive, ominous, and devoid of light—the spectrum of colour is reduced to infinite blackness. A nullity and an emptiness. One hears the beckoning call of the seething, faceless void. The black womb opens again…

Regular DLP version on black vinyl in gatefold jacket with booklet and vinyl only bonus track. Die Hard edition on clear vinyl in gatefold jacket with vinyl only bonus track with flag and housed in wooden slipcase. The first CD edition is housed in a digibook package and also comes with an additional disc featuring a raw live recording.

- J. Campbell

Vinyl and CD released via Nuclear War Now! Productions - Tape released via Iron Bonehead Productions

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released April 15, 2018

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