Graveripper - Radiated Remains
About the band
Graveripper are a blackened thrash band formed in Indiana in 2018, they signed to Wiseblood records in 2021 and released their second EP ‘Radiated remains’ through them on June 4th 2021.
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The review
The opening track ‘Instinctive Extinction’ is an instrumental only track, only lasting about 28 seconds. I genuinely thought it was part of ‘Atoms divide’ for a bit. It took a few listens to realise they were different tracks, Speaking of, ‘Atoms divide’ is the next track. It begins after a short pause, it’s a fast paced, heavy track, we get a first listen to the vocals with this one, they’re deep, almost growled. It’s also very guitar heavy. ‘All life decays’ comes next, it keeps the speed and energy of the last song but it was a lot catchier.
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‘Cherenkov light’ is next, the vocals here are much deeper than before and sound scream/spoken but the instrumentals are a lot lighter, still heavy but sounds a lot more rock ‘n roll meets thrash metal which is something I never imagined working but it does. ‘Complete blinding darkness’ is next, again the instrumentals are a little lighter sounding, a little more rock n roll mixed with something else so I won't go too in depth, the last song ‘King Killer’ is similar but catchier.
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Conclusion
This isn’t really a style I'm into but in saying that it was an enjoyable release. The whole EP is very guitar heavy and you can hear a multitude of musical inspirations from black and thrash metal to rock n roll, the vocals are heavy and screamed almost demonic sounding in parts, the band have said slayer are an inspiration of theirs and being a fan of slayer myself I can definitely hear that. I’d definitely recommend this release.
Music and social media
You can check Graveripper on Bandcamp and other social media sites