Early Graves - We The Guillotine
Posted on August 19, 2008 at 12:15 pm by admin
I never got too familiar with Apiary, the band that Early Graves contains former members of (although no founding members). I heard a few tracks of caustic, noisy technical grind from that old band, which apparently didn’t get many favourable reviews.
When bands go through name changes like this to denote a big change, usually the change isn’t as different as they usually say, but this case I’ll dare say it’s different, though not unrelated. This is way more caustic, noisier, crushing and less technical than Apiary, and contains way more inspiration and ferocity than the tracks I heard from that previous band.
Early Graves sends their message through simpler riffing, a messy smacking of cymbals, much like crashing dishes, and vocals so rough it’s like being dragged across lots of tiny pieces of broken glass. Reading through the influences of many bands MySpace pages typically brings reactions to “Yeah, that sounds like their trying to gain some credibility” or “pretty damn obvious”, but in this case running from Converge to Akimbo to Discharge and Morbid Angel make sense from inspirational standpoints, especially the noisy wall that would fit extremely well with the said Converge influence. The song “Last Name Porter” stands out, especially with the Morbid Angel influence, taking the same low-end harmonized guitars into a slow, punishing song. Another standout track is “Here There be Monsters”, being the noise/death/grind equivalent of “To Live is to Die” by Metallica by being a long, slow brooding monster it is, with slow building passages in a nearly instrumental song that tops off the end like a cherry to the end of a pile of rusty jagged parts in a junkyard, sticking syringes and broken glass.
Music to hurt yourself to. Alternatively, “We the Guillotine” could be the cause of your pain.
Released August 19th, 2008
Early Graves at MySpace
Ironclad Recordings at MySpace
Buy this album at Amazon.com and Amazon.ca
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