I know this release has been getting buzz, selling out in most places and I'm probably a bit late posting about it. I heard bits of it in my friend's car when it first came out but didn't listen all the way through until I got the tape in the mail recently, and it was well worth the wait. It even came with a download code! You don't see that too often nowadays, at least with punk and hardcore tapes, but I do use them.
Getting to the actual music, first of all this tape has some real nice shredding. The guitar playing is nuts and the closest thing I'd liken it to would be the sinister virtuosic chaos of HOLOGRAM or CICADA. EARLY GRAVE's sound overall to me has a bit of the bleakness and cold, nihilistic rage of classic dairyland hardcore, the frantic and spasmodic tendencies of Italian punk and a little 80s extreme metal influence, all somehow spewing out of a three-piece where the guitar player is also singing.
Fav tracks: Frozen Blood, Terror of the Gods, Pillagers
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