GRAVE - Back From The Grave
December 14, 2002, 22 years ago
(Century Media)
The sound is intact after six years away – thank the crypt-kickers – as Grave take their Dismember-meets-Crowbar menace into the next thousand years. Nothing much ever happened for these guys, but with the current mini-wave of bands (and supergroups) revisiting original Swedish death, it might be time for Grave and their cube van full of weighty, axle-breaking riffs, to get their due. Back From The Grave’s crustified guitars are the key selling ingredient, while the doom and sophistication of the riffs they envelope enhance a situation somewhat lessened by a craptacious, somewhat cheaply American death drum sound. Although given the massive stormclouds behind these riffs, one gets the impression that putting the drums back in the mix was a deliberate choice designed to showcase the frightening scope, heft and intelligence of these classy riffs. Comes with a second disc stuffed with rare early demos.
