Genre | Black Metal |
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Date (CEST) | 2019-03-10 15:13:10 |
Group | GRAVEWISH |
Size | 62 MB |
Files | 8 |
M3U / SFV / NFO |
Grimtone-Memento_Mori-2017-GRAVEWISH
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Tracklist (M3U)
# | Filename | Artist | Songname | Bitrate | BPM |
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1 | 01-grimtone-intro.mp3 | Grimtone | Intro | 252 | Unknown |
2 | 02-grimtone-souls_reborn_in_hate.mp3 | Grimtone | Souls Reborn in Hate | 277 | Unknown |
3 | 03-grimtone-the_blood_of_the_dead.mp3 | Grimtone | The Blood of the Dead | 273 | Unknown |
4 | 04-grimtone-memento_mori.mp3 | Grimtone | Memento Mori | 265 | Unknown |
5 | 05-grimtone-fields_of_pale_limbs.mp3 | Grimtone | Fields of Pale Limbs | 267 | Unknown |
6 | 06-grimtone-armageddon_(rise_from_hell).mp3 | Grimtone | Armageddon (Rise from Hell) | 270 | Unknown |
7 | 07-grimtone-witchs_lair.mp3 | Grimtone | Witch's Lair | 278 | Unknown |
8 | 08-grimtone-empress_of_the_black.mp3 | Grimtone | Empress of the Black | 276 | Unknown |
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░ ██ ██ Artist: Grimtone ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Memento Mori █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2017 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2019-03-09 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Black Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Extreme Metal Music ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ Just in time for the first snows of the season, █
█ two man Swedish black metal project, Grimtone, █
█ released its first full-length album, 'Memento █
█ Mori', with all the raging winds and flying ice █
█ expected to prove itself as a raw and fitting █
█ addition to the plethora of newcomers honoring the █
█ roots of the style. █
█ Blasting out of the gate with some shameless █
█ Immortal worship in ôSouls Reborn in Hateö, it is █
█ clear enough that Grimtone promises to make up for █
█ its lacking inventiveness with aggression. Sure, █
█ Michael Lang has an aptitude for his instruments █
█ and plenty of stamina to hold down his blast █
█ beats, however it seems that the music as a whole █
█ would benefit from more input and outside ideas to █
█ push the instrumentation past its satisfactory █
█ simplicity into a more interesting dimension. █
█ While Linus Carlstedt provides vocals, it seems █
█ very likely that Lang is the main contributor to █
█ the band with control over every instrument, █
█ leading to a bottleneck of creativity. There are █
█ some good tremolo hooks throughout this album like █
█ in ôThe Blood of the Deadö and ôArmageddon (Rise █
█ from Hell)ö. Sadly, they end up reeled in by a █
█ constant background black metal blast. Between █
█ sparse cymbal breaks and blast beating, there is █
█ not much more going on in the lower register █
█ throughout the majority of 'Memento Mori', just an █
█ endless grim tumble of flat and atonal aggression █
█ that blends itself into a vanilla paste thick █
█ enough to paint a face and fill an average mold █
█ with the bare minimum. █
█ I keep wondering, where is the shriek, where is █
█ the fear, where is the evil that I so desire █
█ between shrill and nearly inescapable riffs that █
█ sound as fearsome as they are destruction in the █
█ ears? Yet this band has nothing but a pathetic █
█ personae to push rather than a true sense of █
█ horror to isolate and explore. If you blast this █
█ album, you hear the same as you do when listening █
█ to it on a lower volume. There is nothing but a █
█ base system of banality driving this music that, █
█ while keeping a drum stamina, doesn't grab a █
█ church by the steeple and feed it to Satan's fire. █
█ If this band wanted to portray the oldschool, it █
█ simply kindergartens it and that is what makes █
█ this album so utterly inane and commercial an █
█ attempt. █
█ Most disappointing is that the title track ends up █
█ sounding more like an 8-bit Bowser battle than a █
█ bombastic black metal offering and the guitars, █
█ held deeply in the background, sound exactly like █
█ the guitars in each verse of ôFields of Pale █
█ Limbsö. This production is perplexing. Either the █
█ band doesn't understand how the limitations of █
█ lo-fi recording equipment contributed to the █
█ releases of early black metal and its sound, █
█ namely the necessity for personality and █
█ definition through its minimalism, or the band █
█ just doesn't care because this album was clearly █
█ recorded on nice equipment and then mixed to sound █
█ awful, doing the music a disservice and simply █
█ coming off as contrived. Throughout six main █
█ songs, there is an average of one riff at best per █
█ song, not counting incessant repeating ideas that █
█ end up hammered into dullness by a damnable █
█ one-trick drum kit. █
█ The biggest change in drumming comes in ôWitch's █
█ Lairö where the percussion is allowed to build █
█ from a slow and sharp cymbal and snare combination █
█ to steadily rise in intensity. Where the majority █
█ of this album was hammering to the kvlt, Michael █
█ Lang does stretch out a bit on this track to help █
█ distract from the vocals and let a cymbal tap the █
█ tip of the tremolo. Bass and echo come in waves, █
█ falling with the guitars in a very literal and █
█ linear sound that yearns to take a next step into █
█ some sort of counterpoint. Grimtone is almost █
█ there in ôWitch's Lairö but, to its own detriment, █
█ is unwilling to embark on that journey as they █
█ band plays it as safe as possible. Black metal is █
█ not a safe sort of music and I think Grimtone █
█ forgot that fact while trying to appeal to that █
█ same audience. █
█ ôEmpress of Black Lightö lines a riff right back █
█ up with the canon created by the title track, █
█ rounding out the majority of this album with its █
█ quick sawing that has become an all-too-familiar █
█ and unearned encore throughout these thirty-one █
█ minutes. In spite of a nice second riff that █
█ swings past the lead in a far more pleasing █
█ fashion, Grimtone fails to impress with too little █
█ too late. Like the actual style of memento mori, █
█ images taken of the dead during the days when █
█ photography was prohibitively expensive and most █
█ families' only pictures of their loved ones would █
█ be of corpses propped up after death for the █
█ occasion of a funeral, Grimtone may as well have █
█ left the old school to its own era and tried to do █
█ something slightly new. Sadly, 'Memento Mori' is █
█ another average and unnecessary underground █
█ attempt at homage without personality. Stiffness █
█ and mysterious minimalism do not always equate to █
█ grimness. Such a flat and unimpressive album █
█ merely shows this pair's own atonality and trite █
█ creativity in a realm so accustomed to innovation. █
█ Grimtone is likely to dwell among the likes of █
█ Framferd and Runespell. In a hall lined with █
█ identical statues and where the haunting echoes of █
█ 'who?. . . who?' glide past rafters upon which no █
█ owls care to perch. █
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░ 1. Intro 0:38 ░
░ 2. Souls Reborn in Hate 3:42 ░
░ 3. The Blood of the Dead 6:00 ░
░ 4. Memento Mori 3:34 ░
░ 5. Fields of Pale Limbs 3:27 ░
░ 6. Armageddon (Rise from Hell) 4:34 ░
░ 7. Witch's Lair 4:00 ░
░ 8. Empress of the Black 6:00 ░
░ 31:55 ░
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