Graveside (Russia) "Sinful Accession" (1993)
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Graveside/16127
GRAVESIDE was a fairly obscure Russian death metal band formed in 1991, ones of the Pioneering Russian Death Metal scene. "Sinful Accession" first & only one full length album. GRAVESIDE were more brutal and technically proficient thanks to the band's skills as well as their main influence being worn proudly on the sleeve: lots and lots of DEICIDE with additional smaller doses of MORBID ANGEL.
Review to this release from Metal-Archives:
Here is to another bunch of unsung heroes, the likes of which our dear metal underground is oh-so-ripe with. GRAVESIDE, along with slightly better known DEATH VOMIT, were one of the earliest bona fide proponents of no-frills brutal death metal on the Russian soil. This, their only full-length, dates back to those nostalgic yet romantic times in the early 90's when lines between good and evil were, ahem, more clear cut. As of several years ago the band was supposedly still active and working on the new material despite losing their charismatic front man/vocalist/bass player to the Grim Reaper, yet nothing has surfaced so far. Oh well, at least we have this one monument to relish, which was not particularly easy to come by until it surfaced on the net recently via a vinyl rip. Thank you to the kind folk out there.
GRAVESIDE were more brutal and technically proficient than the afore-mentioned DEATH VOMIT, thanks to the band's skills as well as their main influence being worn proudly on the sleeve: lots and lots of DEICIDE with additional smaller doses of MORBID ANGEL. All the classic facets of Glen Benton's "antikrist" troupe are present in spades and honed lovingly, be it the tightly controlled rhythm section, blistering guitar work and storming solos, or blasphemous lyrics. That's not all, though. GRAVESIDE not only put together a high quality worship, but, as True prodigies, managed to bring to the table a little something of their own. Witness the band's oddball atonal keyboard injections, popping up seemingly out of nowhere on a few tracks ("Prayersick" for example) and lending a truly unsettling flair to the proceedings; or the vocal performance being less over-the-top yet in some ways more evil sounding than those of maestro Benton's. Top it all off with adequately composed, rock-solid material and raw production (which, fortunately, does not totally drown out the bass), and you have one fine example of death metal done the way it was meant to.
Being relegated to the confines of the then infrastructure-poor Russian metal underground did not do the band any favors. Their impact was localized, and the record was for a long time available on vinyl and cassette only. It may be too late trying to secure GRAVESIDE a proper place in metal history, yet tracking this down and giving it a good listen would certainly be the right thing to do. Amen to that.
Pioneering Russian death metal - 80%
(c) UCTYKAH, February 4th, 2009
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Graveside/Sinful_Accession/59584/UCTYKAH/156713
Track Listing:
1. Voices of Devastation 04:47
2. Magnificient Blasphemy 03:18
3. Prayersick 03:10
4. In the Name of Incarnation of the Great Faith... 02:42
5. Unsinful Suicide 03:43
6. Pray, Pray to Your Asshole Mortals 04:05
7. Helpless Swollen Creature 03:49
8. Confession 02:43
9. Sinful Accession 04:18
10. We All Will Be Dead!!! 02:02
Total Length: 34:37
Line-up:
Igor Logatchev (R.I.P. 2004) - Vocals, Bass, Keyboards
Roman Zybin - Guitars (lead)
Sergey Grishin - Guitars (rhythm)
Igor Lesnevskiy (R.I.P. 2011) - Drums
Co-release with KTR.
Release date: July 1993
VK - https://vk.com/club2716998
Fansite - http://www.graveside.narod.ru/
