{"id":89033,"date":"2021-03-26T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=89033"},"modified":"2021-04-11T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T15:59:52","slug":"album-review-1782-from-the-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-1782-from-the-graveyard\/","title":{"rendered":"1782 – From The Graveyard (2021) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

1782
From The Graveyard<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHeavy Psych Sounds (2021)<\/span>
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Italian doom metal has always been my thing. For some reason the country always coughs up something a bit different, and 1782 is another act you can add to the list of bands fiddling with fuzz.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with this trio then let me fill you in. The band began life just three years ago in 2018 and introduced themselves with the single \u2018She\u2019s A Witch\u2019. In 2019, 1782 released their debut self-titled album which was a tad underwhelming, but now two years on we have From The Graveyard<\/em> \u2013 43 minutes of brain-fuzzing dooooom!<\/p>\n

1782 provide eight tracks, opening with the distant bell tolling intro \u2018Evocationis\u2019 before oozing into \u2018The Chosen One\u2019, which is soupy, fog-drenched quagmire sludge with whiny, murky vocal sneers and a general downbeat tone of quicksand dominance. In a sense there\u2019s nothing fancy about 1782 \u2013 it\u2019s still laborious slop \u2013 but it does conjure up boggy atmospherics as it lumbers.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bloodline\u2019 awakens, yawns, wipes its eyes and drags itself out of bed on a stark bass twang, before the garbage men dump a load of sludge on the doorstep. It\u2019s ominous, bleak and suspense-drenched in its barren approach and for seven minutes you are dragged into the bowels of lethargy; a slow motion apocalypse of black slimy guitar heaves and a percussion plod that would crack tortoise shells. When the vocal mourns of guitarist Marco Nieddu come, I\u2019m thankful, almost saved by his lost, remote wails of despair, but at least they remind me there\u2019s life beyond this wall of dragging dissonance.<\/p>\n

\u2018Black Void\u2019 offers no response; again the build-up is a slow, suffocating mire of feedback, distortion and gloop. There\u2019s no real deviation throughout, just that samey lumbering dismal discharge. Due to such misery there is that tendency to drift off, although I\u2019m sure the stoners of this world would no doubt blaze up another joint to celebrate such sickly secretions. But when a Gothic organ interrupts I\u2019m frustrated as to why the band didn\u2019t incorporate the instrument more, because suddenly 1782 becomes a different band.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s soon back to type. \u2018Inferno\u2019 is squalid, cumbersome and exhausting, while \u2018Priestess Of Death\u2019 is equally mesmeric, but at times dull, and I\u2019m left wondering where that oddball Italian vintage charm has gone as the riff repeats itself time and time again and tests the patience.<\/p>\n

\u2018Seven Priests\u2019 brings the same slow build-up and there\u2019s no questioning the weight of the trio as bass, drums and guitar collide and become one vast blubbery mass, but as closer \u2018In Requiem\u2019 treads familiar soundscapes I feel a tad fooled once again by the overtly occult artwork which essentially hides a rather one-dimensional black void of sludge that\u2019s not overly creative, psychedelic or colourful. 1782 are surely capable of more than what is available in this damp cess-pit of apparent limitation.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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