Out of the Mouth of Graves - Harbinger Unceremonious | Dissonant Death Metal CD
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"Sitting just on the border of what we could charitably define as music comes ‘Harbinger Unceremonious’, the debut album from the brand new American death metal entity known (rather pithily) as Out of the Mouth of Graves. If we were feeling uncharitable we might describe this as death metal’s answer to Deathspell Omega. But where the latter was an attempt to pack as much surplus information as possible into every bar of music, ‘Harbinger Uncerimonious’ is an exploration in music’s untimely collapse. It’s as if we are watching death metal implode from the inside, as riffs, drum fills, and guitar leads all struggle to marshal some semblance of solidity in the face of their ultimate decay.
The production is what we in the trade would call “raw as fuck”. Tinny drums clatter and barrage their way through these tracks with absolutely nothing done at the mixing desk to soften their immediacy. Several guitar tracks weave in and out of one another, accompanied by an array of vocal outbursts from every end of the register with little regard for rhythm or phrasing.
The guitars themselves take the art of dissonance to another level by apparently just playing different pieces of music over the top of one another. Whilst the drums manage to keep the rhythmic momentum of the pieces together, the guitars for the most part offer a blunt wall of sound, atop which random melodic inflections or contextless flecks of noise occasionally jump out of the fray. The competing guitar lines do coalesce at times, either linking up with droning chords in response to a rhythmic breakdown or collaborating in lead guitar work that marries up with the pitch if not the key of each line.
Much like China’s Scenery of Pale Lake is for black metal, I would describe ‘Harbinger Uncerimonious’ as a work of post death metal. And I mean this in a very literal sense rather than the common understanding of the “post” prefix. It feels like we are watching the literal collapse of death metal’s proud formalities. The taught rhythms, the disciplined riff formation and placement, the solos that bring theatre and melodic character into sharp focus, all are losing their structural integrity and dissolving into noise across these tracks. But Out of the Mouth of Graves attempting to exist between two worlds.
Many metal subgenres have abandoned the pursuit of traditional music and started to bleed into noise. But here we witness life on the border, with just enough familiar musical features to make us feel like this should be home, but a home where the walls are slowly collapsing around us, sinking into the murk below. And this uncanny exercise in music’s partial decay is undeniably more compelling and noteworthy than many purer metallic interpretations of noise genres."
-Hate Meditations Review
hatemeditations.com/2022/03/25/i-like-the-beats-and-i-like-the-yelling-abbath-out-of-the-mouth-of-graves-saklas/
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released March 31, 2022
Justin Vølus - Vocals / Lyrics / Aesthetic Concepts / CD Inlays Design
Nicholas Turner - Lead Guitars / Mixing
Jared Moran - Main Songwriting Guitarist / Bass / Drums
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Dede Suhita - Original Artwork
Will at Dead Air Studios - Mastering
Catalog # - Vargheist 032
Justin Vølus - Vocals / Lyrics / Aesthetic Concepts / CD Inlays Design
Nicholas Turner - Lead Guitars / Mixing
Jared Moran - Main Songwriting Guitarist / Bass / Drums
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Dede Suhita - Original Artwork
Will at Dead Air Studios - Mastering
Catalog # - Vargheist 032
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