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Harbinger Unceremonious

by Out of the Mouth of Graves

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MJ
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MJ Shockingly good raw disso death. The album description does a great job of explaining what’s going on here (and I strongly recommend reading it), but, bottom line, this is some REALLY GREAT SHIT, so do yourself a favour and listen! Favorite track: Hallucinations, Morphine Phantasms.
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honeycombguy I'm not always in the mood for nightmarish, horrifying albums, but this definitely does the trick when I am in the mood. Favorite track: Worship Cyclopean Monolith.
LR616
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LR616 like being blasted in the face with a sawed off double barrel 12 gauge. Favorite track: Herald of the Tempest.
Matten
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Matten Twisted and psychotic death metal for twisted and psychotic people.
There's a lot of sounds to unpack here, so thankfully it doesn't overstay its welcome. Favorite track: Hallucinations, Morphine Phantasms.
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The mercy of the god you never met The mercy of the fate you never known Nihilistic visions of torment Suffering in vain Inquistitor I am the gloom Impaled and burned at the stake Forces of the unknown envelop Cursed and never seen again For the time approaching Burn to ash
2.
The antithesis of life Decide, decide what should die Vanquish / Erase Weakness is commonplace All must be.. fucking erased All must be erased Harbinger Unceremonious Weakness is commonplace Hidden color.. vibrant.. blood wash away Hidden color blood wash away
3.
The appalling cosmic sire So.. meet the maker Earth bastard creation Unwinded rogue planet
4.
A descent into the mire Staring back a cyclopean being Impenetrable by any known weapon Towering above all.. life forgotten As insects under the weight of its omniscent power A descent into the mire.. A descent into insanity Endure this no more, a blind leap into the void Hallucinations are abstraction to perish Endure this no more
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Tighten at the point of eye dilation The sweet nectar of the abyss Awaiting the injection Purge the visions Your pain won't end Will they stay away? Psychosis never ending Awaiting the injection Purge the Visions Psychosis never ending The sweet nectar...of the end
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The furthest realities of the mind Forgivness is letting go, weakness.. purely Suffering abstraction deeper into oblivion My abstraction to oblivion The perspective of the dead The harrowing, haunting Summon these inner thoughts No remorse for those killed A reality repurposed for my end
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The rotten stench of aquatic life The moon high in the sky Blinding eclipse An eye transfixed Awakened to the seas dissapated The voyage forgotten.. Descend into the black mire Seethe despair the void enveloping What comes next you'll never know The ending is closer than what you think Seethe despair the void enveloping Seethe despair the void enveloping....

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"Sitting just on the border of what we could charitably define as music comes ‘Harbinger Unceremonious’, the debut album from the brand new American death metal entity known (rather pithily) as Out of the Mouth of Graves. If we were feeling uncharitable we might describe this as death metal’s answer to Deathspell Omega. But where the latter was an attempt to pack as much surplus information as possible into every bar of music, ‘Harbinger Uncerimonious’ is an exploration in music’s untimely collapse. It’s as if we are watching death metal implode from the inside, as riffs, drum fills, and guitar leads all struggle to marshal some semblance of solidity in the face of their ultimate decay.


The production is what we in the trade would call “raw as fuck”. Tinny drums clatter and barrage their way through these tracks with absolutely nothing done at the mixing desk to soften their immediacy. Several guitar tracks weave in and out of one another, accompanied by an array of vocal outbursts from every end of the register with little regard for rhythm or phrasing.

The guitars themselves take the art of dissonance to another level by apparently just playing different pieces of music over the top of one another. Whilst the drums manage to keep the rhythmic momentum of the pieces together, the guitars for the most part offer a blunt wall of sound, atop which random melodic inflections or contextless flecks of noise occasionally jump out of the fray. The competing guitar lines do coalesce at times, either linking up with droning chords in response to a rhythmic breakdown or collaborating in lead guitar work that marries up with the pitch if not the key of each line.

Much like China’s Scenery of Pale Lake is for black metal, I would describe ‘Harbinger Uncerimonious’ as a work of post death metal. And I mean this in a very literal sense rather than the common understanding of the “post” prefix. It feels like we are watching the literal collapse of death metal’s proud formalities. The taught rhythms, the disciplined riff formation and placement, the solos that bring theatre and melodic character into sharp focus, all are losing their structural integrity and dissolving into noise across these tracks. But Out of the Mouth of Graves attempting to exist between two worlds.

Many metal subgenres have abandoned the pursuit of traditional music and started to bleed into noise. But here we witness life on the border, with just enough familiar musical features to make us feel like this should be home, but a home where the walls are slowly collapsing around us, sinking into the murk below. And this uncanny exercise in music’s partial decay is undeniably more compelling and noteworthy than many purer metallic interpretations of noise genres."

-Hate Meditations Review
hatemeditations.com/2022/03/25/i-like-the-beats-and-i-like-the-yelling-abbath-out-of-the-mouth-of-graves-saklas/

credits

released March 31, 2022

Justin Vølus - Vocals / Lyrics / Aesthetic Concepts / CD Inlays Design
Nicholas Turner - Lead Guitars / Mixing
Jared Moran - Main Songwriting Guitarist / Bass / Drums
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Dede Suhita - Original Artwork
Will at Dead Air Studios - Mastering

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Out of the Mouth of Graves South Carolina

Featuring members of Vølus and Acausal Intrusion. Lovecraftian Dissonant Death Metal from the USA.

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