ASPHALT GRAVES - The New Primitive

August 5, 2016, 7 years ago

(Vitriol)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 8.5

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ASPHALT GRAVES - The New Primitive

It’s no surprise that this debut from Asphalt Graves features Jason Netherton of Misery Index; many of the songs here sound like they could be plucked off a Misery Index album without too many cocked eyebrows. But throw in members who have done time in GWAR, The Black Dahlia Murder, and All That Remains, and you’re going to get some varieties in sound. 

The variety mainly comes in the form of guttural Floridian DM swamp sludge, as on opener “Vulgar Theology”, which immediately gets the fact that these dudes love Obituary out of the way. The album proceeds to grind forth from there, the death metal influences still felt throughout (Death is another that seeps through), but the grindcore rarely relenting; the cover of Nasum’s “Time To Act!” is awesome. The album ends the way it started, with “Exit From Reality” showing off the hearts for Obituary, the whole disc being a fantastic, energetic, and passionate example of death/grind done right, the band in no way a toss-off side project. Like he does with Misery Index, here Netherton channels all that is good about grind and death and delivers it in a package that hits the listener like it's their first time all over again.



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