{"id":96802,"date":"2022-10-15T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=96802"},"modified":"2022-11-22T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:47:32","slug":"album-review-gravegod-promised-graveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-gravegod-promised-graveland\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAVEGOD &#8211; Promised Graveland (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>GRAVEGOD<br \/>Promised Graveland<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" height=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"title3\"><span style=\"color: #c80000;\">SoundAge Productions (2022)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/gravegod_promisedgraveland.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russian deathsters Gravegod certainly capture the attention with that lurid cover art, and thankfully they appeal musically too. This is the debut full-length from this four-piece from Moscow who announce themselves via the melodic strains of opener \u2018Lead Them To (Grave)-God\u2019, but what\u2019s immediately apparent with this record is my conflict with the vocals. Ivan Shirokov quite often drifts towards goregrind aesthetics, those irritating comedy grunts which become an instrument in themselves. However, beyond such negatives the combo still provides chunky death metal that works, especially if the vocals take on a more formulaic grunt and bellow.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the lead guitar work from Vyacheslav Chepelev is impressive, winding effortlessly through the gnashing riffage and there\u2019s plenty of tempo variety too, as displayed with that opener and my favourite track \u2018Endless Catacombs Of Innards\u2019 which drips with atmosphere and menace before the blasts of hostility re-emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Gravegod has found its own sound to some extent. \u2018If These Graves Could Speak\u2019 jars with abrasive power, and \u2018Entrails Of Earth\u2019 provides numerous hectic percussive flurries. Imagine then a vocalist whose tone is less garble and more grotesque, but as it stands we get a death metal act that delivers musically but becomes a generic mess vocally. It\u2019s a shame, but I doubt they\u2019ll care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAVEGODPromised Graveland SoundAge Productions (2022)Rating: 6.5\/10 Russian deathsters Gravegod certainly capture the attention with that lurid cover art, and thankfully they appeal musically too. This is the debut full-length from this four-piece from Moscow who announce themselves via the melodic strains of opener \u2018Lead Them To (Grave)-God\u2019, but what\u2019s immediately apparent with this record is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-gravegod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96802","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=96802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96804,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96802\/revisions\/96804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}