Grave Upheaval - Untitled

If you don’t know who Grave Upheaval are, they’re a Death Metal band from Australia, sharing members with the legends Portal and Impetuous Ritual. Like the aforementioned bands, Grave Upheaval's music is obscure and extremely dark. This album contains 6 new songs (7 if you got the diehard version), and a rerecording of the song “Grave Upheaval” off their self-titled demo. Grave Upheaval seem to have abandoned all elements of what we commonly associate with death metal on this release. Grave Upheaval are not interested in being “brutal”, or rocking out. There are no catchy riffs, there are no flashy guitar solos, or break downs. This album is pure atmosphere. There is so much texture on this album. The guitars drone on, the drums are organic and resonant, and the vocals sound like a corpse bellowing out his last exhausted gasps from an ancient tomb creating a very unsettling vibe. This is the kind of album that literally fills whatever space you are playing it in with sound. You can feel it pulse beneath your feet like a living, breathing monster. With every release Grave Upheaval gets more and more obscure. The name of this album and the songs are all untitled. The artwork is minimal, and one has to really squint at the images to even make out what they are. The whole presentation of the album really compliments the music.

Released on 2xLP and CD by Nuclear War Now!

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