Graves At Sea are a band from Portland, Oregon that plays a blackened form of doom/sludge metal and this is a review of their 2014 ep "This Place Is Poison" which will be released by Eolian Empire.
The ep starts out with a dark and heavy sludge/doom metal sound along with some melody and after a few seconds black metal vocals are added into the music and when we get more into the music melody is added into certain sections of the recording as well as the vocals getting a bit more deeper.
When the ep goes into the second song acoustic guitars are added into the music along with some spoken word parts and a few minutes later the music returns to a heavier direction along with the song being a Black Sabbath covers as well as the vocals combining black metal and sludge together on this 14 minute long track and after 8 minutes you can hear some melody and 70s proto metal guitar leads becoming a part of the music and then a small amount of clean singing is added into the song.
Graves At Sea stick to a very heavy and slow form of sludge/doom metal on the 2 songs that are presented here along with some black metal vocals as well as having a very dark atmosphere to them along with a powerful production and lyrics that cover Occultism and Witchcraft.
In my opinion Graves At Sea are a very great sounding blackened sludge/doom metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACK "This Place Is Poison". 8 out of 10.
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