{"id":14125,"date":"2013-08-26T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=14125"},"modified":"2019-11-10T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T11:07:24","slug":"news-grave-release-morbid-ascent-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-grave-release-morbid-ascent-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAVE Release \u2018Morbid Ascent\u2019 EP (August 26th, 2013) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

GRAVE Release \u2018Morbid Ascent\u2019 EP<\/strong><\/span>
\nAugust 26th, 2013<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSwedish death metal group Grave issued EP Morbid Ascent<\/em> on August 26th, 2013 in Europe through Century Media Records in digital and vinyl format. The label also scheduled a digital only North American release for September 17th.<\/p>\n

Sold at various stands at the Party.San and Summer Breeze open-air festivals in Germany, the vinyl edition of Morbid Ascent<\/em> was released as a 12-inch EP on 180-gram vinyl with full-colour inlay in the following versions:<\/p>\n

Dark-green vinyl (limited to 100 copies) \u2013 exclusively available at www.cmdistro.com
\nTransparent orange vinyl (limited to 200 copies)
\nBlack vinyl (limited to 700 copies)<\/p>\n

Morbid Ascent<\/em>\u2019s cover artwork was designed by Costin Chioreanu, who previously designed the cover artworks for the Grave albums Dominion VIII<\/em> (2008), Burial Ground<\/em> (2010) and Endless Procession Of Souls<\/em> (2012).<\/p>\n

Morbid Ascent<\/em> includes two new tracks (\u2018Venial Sin\u2019 and \u2018Morbid Ascent\u2019), a cover version of Satyricon\u2019s \u2018Possessed\u2019 (originally from October 2002\u2019s Volcano<\/em>), a remix version of \u2018Epos\u2019 (originally from Endless Procession Of Souls<\/em>), and a newly recorded version of \u2018Reality Of Life\u2019 \u2013 the original version of which featured on 1989 demo Sexual Mutilation<\/em>. Eric Cutler of Californian death metal ensemble Autopsy lent guest solos to opening track \u2018Venial Sin\u2019.<\/p>\n

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The track listing was as follows:<\/p>\n

Side one:<\/p>\n

01. \u2018Venial Sin\u2019
\n02. \u2018Morbid Ascent\u2019 <\/p>\n

Side two:<\/p>\n

03. \u2018Possessed\u2019 (originally by Satyricon)
\n04. \u2018Epos\u2019 (from Endless Procession Of Souls<\/em>; \u2018Risen From The Tomb\u2019 edit version)
\n05. \u2018Reality Of Life\u2019 <\/p>\n

An official lyric video was released for the song \u2018Venial Sin\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GRAVE Release \u2018Morbid Ascent\u2019 EP August 26th, 2013 Swedish death metal group Grave issued EP Morbid Ascent on August 26th, 2013 in Europe through Century Media Records in digital and vinyl format. The label also scheduled a digital only North American release for September 17th. Sold at various stands at the Party.San and Summer Breeze […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grave-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80148,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions\/80148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}