Holy Cannoli! #5 is going to the printer today foax. Cover by Hand of Beaver, oil on wood panel
![Grave Command
Various Artists
Unseen Forces
2012 
Rating: Bourbon
The ripping of the corpse, the call we all fear, the command of the grave. If not a consistent flow between mortal shock and deathly atmosphere, the jams brought to undeadness here imbue an individual aura all their own track by track, foot by foot. The competition is stiff for the ultimate take on the condition of the stiff. Who’s gonna bask in fog and reap the beyond?
Pure horror OST tribute from GHOUL replete with requisite bells of doom, eerie footsteps, cackling and church keys. XINR squeals into form via in-your-face, ancient, groinal Northwest thunder. Over the top vox, nasty leads and more cackling. Six feet under you can’t bite the tender! As ORCHID opens, I smell a cape, and perhaps a cheesedog. Calling to mind the dark balladeering tradition of the likes of Liebling and Heybourn, they really have a hit here in the syruply catchy, “Demon Eyes.” RIDE FOR REVENGE may be completely tapped of ideas, but maybe they were when they started the group. Maybe that’s the point. I think it is. This new one-track-Ride is a mellow blending of their often upsetting valiumization. XANDER HARRIS’s side-closing Goblin jaunt’s got soul and momentum to spare. Perfect.
Side two is ripped open like a coroner does chest cavities. Would you examine a fresh corpse if you could? GRAVE VIOLATORS definitely would. Nuthin’ but nasty, taunting Death Metal emerging from all three dimensions. The pukes are ghastly. The profanities uttered in sin. The leads summoned from outer darkness. And just how do fellow American legends of Death, DECEASED, manage to deliver such haunting jingles after all these years? It’s astonishing, really. Although the tune is about werewolves, the galloping calls to mind the same foggy cemetery, but with the headless horseman instead. Mercyful Fate demo production is dirty and perfect. Stripped down three-piece commando line-up with King back on drums exclusive to this here LP. Weird transition right into the doomed death rock of OCCULTATION. Similar feel to their recent lp. You never can tell where the songs are gonna go, but they have the cozy atmosphere wired. Almost too perfect a transition into VENENUM who oozes a faithful, deathy, but no where near as wild, creepy or unhinged as the original, where claws may have actually brought you down into a “Waltz in Hell.” The Sphincter is indeed Mighty! The final feather in this comp’s cap is another band-does-OST-departure-thang from DANAVA. Your eyes cross, your lids close. The end.
[Review by Patrick Delaney for Chips & Beer Magazine]
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Grave Command
Various Artists
Unseen Forces
2012
Rating: Bourbon
The ripping of the corpse, the call we all fear, the command of the grave. If not a consistent flow between mortal shock and deathly atmosphere, the jams brought to undeadness here imbue an individual aura all their own track by track, foot by foot. The competition is stiff for the ultimate take on the condition of the stiff. Who’s gonna bask in fog and reap the beyond?
Pure horror OST tribute from GHOUL replete with requisite bells of doom, eerie footsteps, cackling and church keys. XINR squeals into form via in-your-face, ancient, groinal Northwest thunder. Over the top vox, nasty leads and more cackling. Six feet under you can’t bite the tender! As ORCHID opens, I smell a cape, and perhaps a cheesedog. Calling to mind the dark balladeering tradition of the likes of Liebling and Heybourn, they really have a hit here in the syruply catchy, “Demon Eyes.” RIDE FOR REVENGE may be completely tapped of ideas, but maybe they were when they started the group. Maybe that’s the point. I think it is. This new one-track-Ride is a mellow blending of their often upsetting valiumization. XANDER HARRIS’s side-closing Goblin jaunt’s got soul and momentum to spare. Perfect.
Side two is ripped open like a coroner does chest cavities. Would you examine a fresh corpse if you could? GRAVE VIOLATORS definitely would. Nuthin’ but nasty, taunting Death Metal emerging from all three dimensions. The pukes are ghastly. The profanities uttered in sin. The leads summoned from outer darkness. And just how do fellow American legends of Death, DECEASED, manage to deliver such haunting jingles after all these years? It’s astonishing, really. Although the tune is about werewolves, the galloping calls to mind the same foggy cemetery, but with the headless horseman instead. Mercyful Fate demo production is dirty and perfect. Stripped down three-piece commando line-up with King back on drums exclusive to this here LP. Weird transition right into the doomed death rock of OCCULTATION. Similar feel to their recent lp. You never can tell where the songs are gonna go, but they have the cozy atmosphere wired. Almost too perfect a transition into VENENUM who oozes a faithful, deathy, but no where near as wild, creepy or unhinged as the original, where claws may have actually brought you down into a “Waltz in Hell.” The Sphincter is indeed Mighty! The final feather in this comp’s cap is another band-does-OST-departure-thang from DANAVA. Your eyes cross, your lids close. The end.
[Review by Patrick Delaney for Chips & Beer Magazine]
Copies available now from: http://unseenforcesrecords.blogspot.com
Terror strikes, you will die! Today is the 27th anniversary of POSSESSED’s debut album, Seven Churches. To celebrate, we’re previewing Stewart Voegtlin’s One from the Grave article on this masterpiece, torn from the pages of the upcoming issue (#4) of Chips & Beer The Magazine. You’ll have to wait about one more week to read the piece in its entirety. For now, read on, play it loud and prepare to fly into the pentagram…
