Band name from the early Grave demo and 4th album title – check.

Intro song named “Into the Grave”- check.

Gothic font logo- check.

So I’ll give you one guess what the debut release from Ataraxy’s Santi Racaj sounds like?

Yeah, though hailing from sunny Spain, this is 100%  Grave worship, so HM2 buzzing death metal, but Santi has given it a more raw, putrid, sometimes doomy aura, that has a bit of an Autopsy stench here and there (i.e, the little bridge during “A Somber Night”).

Santi brought in Ataraxy bandmate Javi to handle vocals, and he has a spot-on early Jorgen Sandstrom roar. And the guitar tone has a sort of early Grave demo/first album low end, which makes tracks like “The Eternal Embrace”, “Rebellion Against the Grave” and “Revenge From Beyond”, deliver the musty, but feral old school death metal goodness, even if i wish the bass drum had a little more heft.

A solid introductory EP, and now I need to go and check out Ataraxy, I guess.

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