Perhaps I can be forgiven for being incredibly late on turning in this review. We’re all ‘Human’, right? Regardless of your penchant for mercy, Gruesome is back with their familiar take on ‘Death’ Metal. I had to get my puns out of the way quickly before talking about the music, but the question begs, do we […]
This is a nice little ditty of a release with Matt Harvey leading the way in both bands. For the Exhumed side it’s 3 songs and 2 for the Gruesome side – “The Gruesome Twosome”…I couldn’t resist. 5 songs in about 20 minutes and I have gone through this split multiple times and it’s a […]
Back in 2015, Matt Harvey of Exhumed fame gathered some of his pals from Possessed, Malevolent Creation and Derketa and released Savage Land, an almost note for note homage to Chuck Schuldiner, Death and the seminal Leprosy album. He followed it up with an EP, Dimensions of Horror a more raw release that seemed more focused on earlier Death […]
With last year’s Savage Land, Exhumed main main Matt Harvey and basically his Chuck Schuldiner cover band Gruesome, delivered arguably the apex early Death worship album. But at the end of my review, I wondered how the band would follow Savage Land up. Would they still basically cover Death’s first 3 albums or would they […]
So I’m sure by now all of you know about Gruesome, the classic Death homage act fronted by Matt Harvey of Exhumed and joined by members of Possessed, Malevolent Creation and Derketa. What you don’t know, if you have not heard the album by now, is exactly how fucking spot on Savage Land is in it’s recreation […]