GRAVEBORNE “Pure Negativity” (2011)
Produced by Graveborne

Track listing:
1. Metamorphoses (3:33)
2. Nocturnal (5:01)
3. Dark Clouds of Pestilence (6:19)
4. Aokigahara (6:07)
5. Sacrilegious (6:15)
6. Dark Matter (7:59)
7. Sinister Moon (6:13)
8. The Covenant (5:22)

THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST

Convenes the hell, fall in this downward spiral,  pitching and swallows, this snake blends in you, split you, it is no coincidence if it comes to you, swallows you, then, you’ll never be  the same…

Dark alarm, the “Kilchu” penetrating quickly in my blood, pagan lights out, here we again are burning the witches…The iced cross and wood churches vanish in smoke, this is not a game, it is black as soot, this is the essence of Black Metal, this sublime curse born in the Scandinavian ice.

I would not die to Hyvinkää…
First offering (after a “Astrade Over the Grave” demo in 2009) from the Finns GRAVEBORNE, “Pure Negativity” (recorded by Pentele, mixed by Matias Helle to Drop Hammer Studio, Mastered by Jaakko Viitalahde with a superb Artwork of Markus Räisänen) is a Machine of Annihilation, pernicious Trojan’s horse, which distills a Satanic poison, in the greater tradition of raw Black Metal, forged in the heat of the darkness, ode to the real Malefic.

“Pure negativity”. Everything is said.
Dig your grave because this music catch you  (What a Trip !), this does not forgive. “Metamorphoses” announces hostilities, rapid and concise, dice these first 3 mn, it shouts “Victory”! Unleashed but melodic, powerful with signs, haunting, this Black Metal is racy. Legitimate son of Gorgoroth and Marduk, this black mass deserves. Sensitive souls refrain (me, I’m crazy, I am already on the other side…), this album is absolutely dantesque and will provide the emotions due to this kind of music, this fresh perception of spiritual communion…

Raato (vocal) inhabited voice takes the listener in a whirlwind of feelings, as do workers, the excellent Zingultus and also inspired German Endstille, play his life with his screams, fulfilling the dark and forbidden rituals (“Sinister Moon”).

Martial and therefore any Germanic, “Nocturnal” is a hypnotic battleground, riffs that knock out all futile resistors. Mid-tempo killers for the strong “Dark Clouds Of Pestilence” and “Sacrilegious” to “gradually” lobotomie our little accustomed neurons has such a treatment. It swims in limbo, it breaks. Vacuum, living space, creation of all things.

Never is bored, never it regretted as the song “Aokigahara”, demonstration of a band that welded speaking the same language (Marchosias – Guitar, Pentele – Drums, Raato – Vocals, Brutalust – Guitar, Kalmo – Bass), dedicated the luminescent entity of the body and soul to the black arts.

Lost humanity and stillborn choice, the future has the colour of this “Dark Matter” to the melodic inventiveness, constantly renewed, drilling in the bitter sea of the despair. This time, embraced by these sad arpeggios, we would like this never ceases…As death… But the night-awakening will be painful, “The Covenant” un-grace any hope of repentance and damned the sleep on the slab. Burned deeply by this harsh blows, loose all hope, I also bow before it.

Pure True Black Metal, luridus as anger, without compromise and vindictive, born a new Monster Metal (the beast who was forth still has many beautiful remains…).

Reviewed by MEL DELACROIX