Graves At Sea
March 20 2008 at 08:53:35 PM
A self-released recording that was nearly instaneously out of print; Documents of Grief is reissued here by 20 Buck Spin with nothing altered but the original artwork. Documents created a roiling din when it debuted nearly three years ago, immediately trumpeting avatars of the legendary Burning Witch, manifestations of a mastodonically heavier Black Sabbath, Winter, Electric Wizard. The Orange amp fueled guitar tone sets Arizona’s Graves at Sea apart from these volk, spreading seismic riffs across arid plains of guttural vocals that meld into warbling gray mirage, rising in sun-shocked eagle shriek. Toms and snare are dropped from above, coal cars shattering black on city streets. Cymbals eschew mere accents, sounding more like prejudicially exploded ordinance. “Praise the Witch” is the in nuce track, a slowly greased satyr fuck cloaked in wormwood, ivy vines, cost-cutter vodka. Amplitude’s toil is audible. Incessant shake and rumble runs through the track, often relaxing, popping as wood blaze, other times engulfed in a slowly decaying chord, embers in the dark distance. If there ever was “fire music,” this is decidedly it: Walpurgisnacht, ave…
[Stewart Voegtlin]
Graves at Sea
Documents of Grief
2006
20 Buck Spin
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