NEWS: Grava decimate the weak with Sludge Metal!

Specialists in capturing moments of death as seen through the eyes of the dying in musical and lyrical drama that appears fragmented and intense, Faroese and Danish bleak Sludge Metal unit Grava are following up their well received debut album “Weight of a God” with the ominously titled “The Great White Nothing“. It will appear on 27th September via Aesthetic Death (CD), Vinyltroll Records (LP) and Evil Noise (MC) with “Decimate” the first of nine crushing tracks to be premiered. Pre-orders are available over at bandcamp.

Though not a concept album, the album kicks off with two tracks (“Erebus” and “White Thresher“) that revolve around the same event: the tragic Franklin Expedition, which in 1845 ventured to the northernmost Arctic to explore the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The expedition was a disaster; both ships (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror) were lost, and all 128 crew members perished in the great white nothing to which the title and cover refer.

Throughout the album, Grava expand their lyrical universe, and the bleak sludge metal is accompanied by tales of a heartbreaking execution of a Swedish nobleman in 1707 (“Breaker“), a tragic train accident in the outskirts of Copenhagen in 1897 (“Mangled“), and a soldier’s final chaotic moments in one of the countless muddy trenches of World War I (“Bayonet”).