Cryptic Grave
S/T
Great Dane Records
4 songs plus intro and outro are part of debut EP from this French death metal band that was formed in 2015. The sound of the CD formulates their early existence as a band. I can hear that careless production and sloppy songs still, needs some adjustment before they will be ready to crawl out from their catacombs and the crypts to rip your flesh apart and eat your brain. O course it is old school death metal and I do not expect anything but simple and brutal songs which likely, they deliver. The production of the album make them a little powerless (I mean more massive sound would be better received by me).
I always have liked Patrick Manelli (Pestilence) and John Tardy (Obituary) vocals and Cryptic Grave give me kind of crossover of both. Musically, I can identify them with 80/90`s scene and the bands like Autopsy, Baphomet (US), Morgoth. On their advantage is that they bring a little but still somehing original to their own songs. For example I like sound proportion between guitars and the bass (fine, low tuned sound) where you can hear a rust and dirt of instruments individually, including drums that are played old school.
Intro and outro are short instrumental songs. My favourite regular track is Self Mummified that has very good riffs and guitar solos and the song as a whole works pretty good. Vengeance Of Death is the other solid song. Cryptic Grave play authentic music and I have no stupid feeling that their metal is on purpose composed to impress old death metal times and the bands. They just do sound natural to my ears, in the form of extreme music.
As you can see on graphic arts/front cover, the music is surrounded by grotesque of death metal imaginary, anyway. Quite frankly, along with good music, horror graphics are one of the thing that you get when buying this album. And though; who the fuck do not like to listen to old death metal anymore, just like that...Except you all do!?
Lineup:
Richard : Guit/voc
J-B : Guit.
Gabriel : Bass
Etienne: drums
Tracklist:
Through Death's Door (Intro)
Self-Mummified
Sadistic Funeral
Vengeance Of Death
Opened Corpse
The Last Hour (Outro)
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added:13.05.2018
I always have liked Patrick Manelli (Pestilence) and John Tardy (Obituary) vocals and Cryptic Grave give me kind of crossover of both. Musically, I can identify them with 80/90`s scene and the bands like Autopsy, Baphomet (US), Morgoth. On their advantage is that they bring a little but still somehing original to their own songs. For example I like sound proportion between guitars and the bass (fine, low tuned sound) where you can hear a rust and dirt of instruments individually, including drums that are played old school.
Intro and outro are short instrumental songs. My favourite regular track is Self Mummified that has very good riffs and guitar solos and the song as a whole works pretty good. Vengeance Of Death is the other solid song. Cryptic Grave play authentic music and I have no stupid feeling that their metal is on purpose composed to impress old death metal times and the bands. They just do sound natural to my ears, in the form of extreme music.
As you can see on graphic arts/front cover, the music is surrounded by grotesque of death metal imaginary, anyway. Quite frankly, along with good music, horror graphics are one of the thing that you get when buying this album. And though; who the fuck do not like to listen to old death metal anymore, just like that...Except you all do!?
Lineup:
Richard : Guit/voc
J-B : Guit.
Gabriel : Bass
Etienne: drums
Tracklist:
Through Death's Door (Intro)
Self-Mummified
Sadistic Funeral
Vengeance Of Death
Opened Corpse
The Last Hour (Outro)
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added:13.05.2018
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