Grave Miasma is back from the depths with a second album.
Created in 2002 in England under the name of Goat Molestör, the band led by Y (vocals/guitar/setar/oud/hammond organ) and D (drums, Adorior, Thelma Ramon, ex-Cruciamentum, ex-Indesinence) change its name in 2006. They release their first album in 2013 then welcomes T (bass, ex-Hellsworn) in 2016. Nowadays T also handles lead guitar. Together the trio releases Abyss of Wrathful Deities, the band’s highly anticipated second album.
Even if they only have “few” releases for their lifespan and reputation, the band is ready to give us as morbid and unhealthy as effective compositions. The band begins with Guardians of Death, a greasy, fast and vicious composition with Old School and Black influences that sets an oppressive ambience up. Riffs are immediately effective and motivating, letting the band place piercing leads on this rhythmic greasiness, then the vindictive Rogyapa comes next. A Punk spirit, Old School and Thrash influences, the band evolves into a violent and addictive dirt on this long composition with putrib ambience, just like Ancestral Waters, a song that picks into an oppressive Doom/Death and heady tones. The song is quieter than the others, but Erudite Decomposition comes to strike again with a greasy groove inspired by the greatests. We feel that the track refrain itself, but piercing leads make this morbid liveliness come back.
Under The Megalith offers an unhealthy distorsion to begin the composition, then the band strikes with a morbid and thick sound mass full of bloody harmonics, dubbed with a catchy and quite slow pattern. Demons of the Sand sticks us into a weighing, dissonant and heady atmosphere before striking with an unholy slowness full of dark influences. The rhythmic accelerates while staying in this melancholic and aggressive languor, then Interludes allows us to breathe with a short instrumental before discovering the two last songs. Exhumation Rites immediately begins with a hooking and groovy rhythmic, but the acceleration won’t be late to come. Raw vocals melt themselves to catchy and greasy patterns, full of bloody harmonics and as hooking as violent parts. The song drops us on Kingdoms Beyond Kailash, the last song that stays into this pattern made of length and oppression, melted to an Old School and dissonant rhythmic to close the album into a morbid rage.
Grave Miasma crushes everything on its path again. Abyss of Wrathful Deities offers thick and greasy compositions, full of rage and Old School tones that make us sink again into an unholy, violent and black ambience.
90/100