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Grime - Circle Of Molesters
Released by: Argento Records
Released on: September 1st, 2015.
Purchase From Argento Records
Grim is a four piece from Trieste, Italy, comprised of four guys - Marco on vocals and guitar,
Paolo on bass, Ans on guitar and Chris on drums. Apparently they don't have last names, but they do have a record deal with newly formed Argento Records, based out of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
The album starts off with an instrumental intro, appropriately titled Intro, which runs just over three minutes. It's quiet, the levels are low, and you can't hear much at first. At first I thought that something was screwed up with the MP3s sent for review but then after forty-five seconds or so, noise did eventually erupt from the speakers. Guitars at first, then drums, then bass - but it was still pretty muddy sounding. Levels start to rise, clarity increases… okay, we're off and running.
Get Immortal takes what Intro began and continues it - this is swampy, stoner, doomy sludgy muck metal. It kind of sticks to you, it's hard to wash off and it smells kind of skunky. The vocals are best described as fierce. When the band hits their high speed, they pull you along for the ride and this turns out to be three and a half minutes of pretty intense riffing and brooding drums. Verge Of Wrath keeps things going in that same direction, it's just shy of five minutes in length and it opens up with some chunky, sludgy doom riffs but then segues pretty quickly into something more sinister. Played at the appropriate volume, it seems almost a sure thing that this track could open up a portal to Hell. There's no redeeming social value to it, the track is just plain evil!
Decay In Hades is, not surprisingly, also pretty evil but it's faster than anything that has come before it on the record. It's pretty much a speed metal track played in a grind style, and the drums, which are sadly a little flat in the mix on this song (but just fine on all of the others), just pummel you and pummel you and then pummel you more. Once that track has pummeled you a whole bunch, Sulphorous Veins spends seven and a half minutes picking up off of the floor and slapping you around a bit more.
Accelerating Transition is faster, less sludgy and more thrash/speed metal, but Salvation Comes From Below takes thing back into the ninth circle of Hell for four and a half minutes of doom with a sort of droning ambience to it. It all comes to an appropriately brutal finish with Orgiastic Rites, seven and a half minutes of pure, unadulterated and completely unfucked with super evil doom metal.
This stuff is intense.
