Description
A new threat has reared its head from the depths. Grand Devourer have emerged from the depths of the Lower Saxony death metal underground and have prepared a beast of a debut EP with “Traversing the Void”.
The five guys from Hanover around Christian Lommer – who has already proven his skills in bands such as Critical Mess, Cripper and Moridigan – carry the flame of the HM2 sound tradition into the future without taking the ashes with them. The Swedish sound foundation is extended by brutal walls of sound, black metal frenzy and merciless D-beat attacks.
A first taste was already given in fall 2023 in the form of the single “Circling the Abyss”, which was released online. The online magazine Time for Metal commented on it: “Extremely aggressive, agile and vicious. With “Circling The Abyss”, the Lower Saxons fire their first shotgun blast into the underground. It will be interesting to see what’s waiting in the wings.”
Together with Nino Helfrich from Skull Tone Studios, Grand Devourer have created a massive sound that comes across as professional and powerful, but still has enough “dirt” to make it clear that it’s not about clean high-end death metal, but about bringing the brutality and violence inherent in the roots of the genre into the year 2024.
“Traversing the Void” is a musical bastion of hatred, filled with the abysses of the human psyche. Between cosmic horror, oppression, the fear of fear, death and loneliness, the band takes the listener into the field of tension between anger in the face of the inevitable and the fear of one’s own fragility and weakness. Seven tracks that have gone through a lengthy and painstaking creative process until pure, vicious death steel has been distilled from them.
Tracklist:
Circling the Abyss
Totalitarian Dominion
M777
Awaken the Beast
Beneath a pale Horse
Entropic Aura
Chasing Behemoth
GENRE: Death Metal
BARCODE: 4039967594259
RELEASE DATE: 04/04/2025
