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Released on August 4, 2015 via Profound Lore Records
Profound Lore Records released this? Not that it’s bad, friends. It’s all good, as Pissgrave rock kvlt majesty on their debut full-length album, Suicide Euphoria. Yes, honeys and bunnies, this is kvlt accredited. Not anything like doom stalwarts and label-mates Indesinence or Pallbearer, Pissgrave groove, blast, annihilate and defecate (see album cover) all over the underground scene with this heavy as fuck release. Suicide Euphoria sounds like a man skinned alive dipping into a bathtub full of sea salt.
The band slow down some and downpick some livewires on the guitar strings. The guitars are definitely shoved upfront on the mix, and the balance of sounds has just the charm. They do stop and go without sounding like a nu-metal wannabe, sounding every bit like a tank going front and back repeatedly to trample on your grandmother. Obscure riffs sound real original, and they’re not the catchiest, but they are effective. The sixth-string shreds are unstoppable. You haven’t heard this album before, no matter how much osdm or war metal you’ve heard. Suicide Euphoria is death metal’s Deathspell Omega. Watch out for copycats hacking this style soon if word of this gets out.
The vocals are heavy with effects. You won’t understand a word out of Pissgrave’s vocalist, but it adds just the right amount of insanity to the mix. The riffs literally vary off every single track, no matter what the tempo. No been-there-done-that no-good-trying-hard-second-rate-copycat here. This bitch likes the brand red-hot.
Track five, ‘Prevail in Hell’, is my fave, although I can’t really pick a favorite out of this sure-fire year-end-lister. It’s got divebomb solos and blasts. The tempo rises and the intensity absolutely destroys ear-drums. Check the volume knob on your headset before turning this up. Your face WILL melt!
Is all this intensity mind-numbing? Not so. The riffs retain a fair amount of melody to keep you nodding along, in spite of the break-neck brutality, so you’ll end up picking a favorite song. Wonder what hit you after you’d hit the play button on Pissgrave’s Suicide Euphoria? If and when you learn to love the sensation of alcohol numbing your open wound, infiltrating your seared flesh and exacerbating raw pain, you will get hooked on this. Track seven, ‘The Second Sorrowful Mystery’, sounds like Sarcofago all over again. Do you regularly watch your neighbors scale the heights of Everest after blasting your speakers? Pissgrave’s Suicide Euphoria will send them to the nearest bomb shelters.
Throw in album cover of the year, and this stunner will take you to the slaughter. Bodybags sold separately.
