Search - Grave :: Fiendish Regression

The Originals are Back!!!!

Martin Cisar | O'side, CA | 01/20/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"One of the original Swedish Death Metal Bands come out again with another glorious album. This guys are just old school. The album is not a brutal metal cd, but it certainly is an aggressive one. It does have a bunch of double bass drumming, but not overdone like Morbid Angel or Suffocation. They just play with very catchy riffs and lyrics. If you like BloodBath, Decapitation you are certainly going to like this one.



Fav Songs: Last Journey, Awakening, Trial by Fire."

Just good death metal!!!

critico constructivo | PR | 10/26/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

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Good death metal by the masters. Nothing technicality or constant change of tempos, only great riffs, terrible vocals and solid musicianship. This is a solid release that you need in your collection. So if you like Unleashed, Entombed(early) and Vomitory, try this!!!"

Solid Death Metal

_Enigma_ | 08/06/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Grave. If you can't guess by the name, the band plays Death Metal. Speaking from experience, the words "Death Metal" evoke thoughts of pounding double bass and intense drumming coupled with fast, brutal, and insanely technical riffs and a brutal and gutteral vocal delivery. Bands like Cryptopsy and Suffocation come to mind.



If you go into Grave's "Fiendish Regression" expecting something like that, you will be dissapointed.



I was one of the people who started to listen to this expecting something of the typical Death Metal vein, so I was in for somewhat of a dissapointment. It was considerably slower than what I expected, the double bass was sparcely used, and the vocals sucked. However, I heard a lot of praise about this album and continued to listen. I soon found that this album is not a typical Death Metal fare, but a slow-paced, groove-laden slab of Death Metal, and it's good stuff.



Like I said, this is considerably slower than Hate Eternal ever will be, but the slow, deliberate pace works for the album with some really groovy passages and some of the most headbangable riffs to come out in 2004. However, when the band breaks away from the slow tempos that dominate this album and speed up it's really something to behold, but before you know it they slow back down again. It makes me wish they'd speed up more often, but the groove throughout the albm is undeniably awesome.



The production is quite thin, however. There's not enough meat to the guitars so they sometimes end up sounding quite dreary, and the drums are not nearly thick enough to back up the music presented here. The vocals are forefront and they, quite frankly, suck, but you don't hear too much from them.



There's not a bad song on the album, but at the end of the day, they all wind up sounding very similar. Who cares, though? What you have here is some solid groove-laden Death Metal; nothing fancy, no finger-twisting technicality, no speed-demon drumming, just some good Death Metal. What little diversity the album offers is done so through varying tempos, but a vast majority are either slow or mid-paced, so diversity is not too abundant. Thusly, no songs really stand out, and the album is best taken in as a whole.



All in all, if you want Death Metal, pick up Hate Eternal's "I, Monarch". However, if you want some atypical Death Metal that's not afraid to slow down, this is for you."