Add to that the chugging guitar, it completes the piece perfectly. Through the ebb and flow of the track, the slower, dreamier mids are interwoven with visceral growls, rumbling bass, and a pounding that gets the blood pumping.
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Right from the entrance, Erik pummels those drums, and really shows just how hungry they are to get your full attention. The break downs are slow and drudgy, and with Mark’s chugging guitar, and Alan’s heart stopping bass, this is a band really in control of their destiny.Ī Grave For The Axe forces you to sit up and listen.
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Crystal’s vocal is absolutely captivating over the doom grunge background, which EMBR seem to be slowly making their own thing. This track truly taps into that grungy feel from the last EMBR outing, its slow, lurching, and menacing. The depth they’ve created is absolutely fantastic, and really pushes the band beyond being just another doom band…īorn enters with a real slow burn feel, before Erik’s drum, and Crystal’s vocal descend in to join the mix. EMBR are taking no prisoners, they step in, and the mission statement is clear, they’re stamping their name in to the concrete, for all to see.
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Each part is absolutely electric, from the power play of her vocal, and those guttural growls, to the pounding drums, visceral guitar work, and that insane bassline. It isn’t so much an opening as it is a statement ‘ EMBR are here, get ready fuckers.’ After a fiery introduction, Crystal’s ethereal vocal swoops in, and pulls everything into line. Opener Vesuvius erupts as if it is the very volcano itself. The sound flows so incredibly, and you can really feel the tightness of the band through the way the tracks have been constructed, working as one gargantuan beast, not so much four individuals, as it’s a bigger entity, a sum of all its parts. On 1021, EMBR have capitalised on that formula, and then evolved again, into something that gels, and works so incredibly well, that it’s hard to believe that it’s only been a year since that first album. The angst and moroseness of the grunge classics seemed to awaken something, and the dynamic result was an absolute joy to hear. The grunge EP really was a masterstroke, and saw them add another element to their sound, which elevated them far beyond most of their peers for me.
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Without wanting to sound too fan boy about the whole affair, I’m going to throw out there right now, that I love this band. I had absolutely no fear that what would come forth would be incredible, and I was happily rewarded by what EMBR have come back with now. After the success of debut album 1823, and the following grunge classics covers EP, it was always going to be a revelation just how the band would evolve, and if the lessons learned on previous outings would shape the development of new EP, 1021. When they announced they would be doing a three track EP, in celebration of New Heavy Sounds 10th Anniversary, it got me extremely intrigued as to just where the band were heading next on their adventures.