A Blackened Death Doom Metal band from the United States. On December 3rd, 2021, the band released their debut album, Graves. The album was released through Transylvanian Recordings and Morbid and Miserable Records, and promoted through Shred Storm PR.
Introduction:
Slog, Graves: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of Graves
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Slog and their album, Graves.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features wild, meandering, heavy riffs with the dripping of haunting, sinister/ritual, and depressed atmosphere.. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves powerful, raw and unholy vocals. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of dark pounding drum strikes and beats, crushing drum beats/patterns.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: A Desolate Crematory Journey of Blackened Death Doom Metal
Immediately after pressing the play button, the listener is welcomed to the opening track, Wounded Practitioner. This welcomes the listener with progressive riffs awakening, followed by despair, a crushing atmosphere, death growls, and the slow black march of the dead.
Continuing with the remaining seven pieces, the music takes one through a desolate crematory journey, playing an amalgamation blend of death-doom.
This provides the music with that brutalization heaviness, the crushing sound of sludge (both the critical elements of the piece), and the slow and depressive/sorrowful feel of funeral doom – thus creating this painfully slow, genuinely creeping pace and obscure extreme fusion. It’s soaked in a darkly/brutish, magic, malice, grim, profound and desolate atmosphere. One will also find moments of tension, progression/aggression, the reduced tempo, and the immense weight of heaviness.
Simultaneously, the deeper one goes, one will encounter a horrific ritualistic feeling buried within the music. The unsettling nature wraps around the listener like a wintery breeze, embarking on a path of most resistance and preparing to be crushed by the music. That’s topped off with wild riffs, raw vocals, pounding drums, topped notch craftsmanship, musicianship, and (raw) production. The eight songs are both equally solid and strongly composed/produced.
The album ends with the last song, Phenomena Esoteric. This continues the (slow) heaviness and crushing atmosphere near the end with (approx a minute left of play) bringing the album to a close —with this ethereal ritual riffage feeling/atmosphere. We thank Shred Storm for letting us review Slog and their Divination album. We will wrap it up by discussing the final three sins and concluding the review.
You’re Listening to “Hidden Realities”
PlayThe Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Slog and their album, Graves.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, Slog‘s crushing sound, nasty vocals, and wild riffs are some defining features of this music.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
Showing a graveyard – thus speaking for the music, a music that’s no sweet walk in the park but a dark, sorrowful walk through a desolate crematory.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Slog, and their album Graves.
This concludes the Slog, Graves review.
Track-Listing:
- Wounded Practitioner
- Hidden Realities
- Ceremonial Magicks
- Corporal
- Levitating Beyond
- Gluttonous
- Voluntary Disintegration
- Phenomena Esoteric
Slog is:
- Jared Moran – drums and vocals
- Nicholas Turner – guitar and bass, mixing and mastered
