To The Grave is about to drop Epilogue, its new album.
When I say new album, I mean first a remaster of the previous one, and on the other hand some new songs, created by Dane Evans (vocals), Tom Cadden (guitar), Jack Simioni (guitar), Matt Clarke (bass) and Simon O’Malley (drums) from Australia.
As I said before, the band’s album is separated into two parts. The first, composed of the eleven tracks from the previous album Global Warming, has some surprises. The album was remastered to give their crushing Deathcore a more current sound, between wild drums, possessed howlings and killer rhythmic. Breaks, moshparts, insane screams and pure violence are on the bill, but the band isn’t alone on this part. We have Nic Webb (Alchemy) on Holocaustralia: Global Warning, Jerry Chard (Vengeance) on Ecocide, Daniel Macdonald (Wormtongue) on Pest Control, Nick Adams (Justice For The Damned) and his Hardcore touch on Hell Hole, Blake Curby (Teeth) for Slaughter Forever, Bailey Schembri (Iconoclast) and his rage for The Devil In Sheepskin, but also Taylor Barber (Left to Suffer) on Wastage, Rheese Peters (Babirusa) for Skin Like Pigs and Alex Hill (Âme Noire) on Seven Billion Reasons. A great guest list for different shades of pure violence.
Where the band offers fresh stuff is from the eight last songs, with the very short but extremely brutal Hear Evil, See Evil (The Haunting of 2624 Dog Trap Rd). A dissonant Deathcore that borrows from Grind and Slam, then Miserable Summer, the band’s last hit, comes. The song is long and suffocating, allowing the band to spread all its strength before going back to greasy and bloody violence on [-REC], an oppressive track with seizing groove, then Terrorist Threat strikes without a warning, accompanied by disturbing tones and unexpected rage. We stay into groove and modernity with Kill Shelter, an immediately hypnotic song, Death By A Thousand Cuts, a composition only made to make crowds explode, but also Recoil in Horror, a strangely accessible song. Pig squeal, growl and diverse howlings melt to violent and effective rhythmics, then The Ghost of You comes to close the album with soaring Metalcore accents.
To The Grave doesn’t disown the past, but the band improves it. Epilogue makes the link between their old and their new violence, permanently offering moshparts, breaks and super powerful breaks, an effective recipe that has nothing to prove anymore!
80/100