Obras de una mente enferma

Hey you, dicks up who love Cannibal Corpse's 'The Bleeding' platter (from 1994, god damn that long ago?!)! 1... 2... 3 dicks. Haha, only joking! 'The Bleeding' happens to me my favourite CC album and in my opinion, their sickest to date. Eternal Grave come from Argentina. Their style is quite close to 'The Bleeding', with some interesting twists.

So, there are loads of gurgling gut-stretching riffage that became so familiar thanks to 'The Bleeding'. But, words are growled in Spanish, which gives this a bit of a different edge. About the growls: Low, guttural voice is accompanied by Chris Barnes style high-pitched (?!?!) throat rending. Anyways, it's not all Cannibal Corpse worship, as the likes of Machetazo and Disgorge (the Mexican one!) are also valid points of comparison, if not as big as CC. At its most technical point, bass playing reminds me of Steve DiGiorgio and Tony Choy's work. Most melodic parts (don't worry, nothing bad here) remind me of Death and Pestilence. Eternal Grave utilize these influences in almost every song here (grindcore piece 'Pus' being a true deviation), which makes the album lost its sharpest interest too fast. Catchier songwriting could do wonders for the band. But as it is, it should be interesting enough for sick 'n' heavy death metal freaks out there, as there's cool stuff aplenty in these 45 minutes.

So, soundwise this is heavy. Very heavy, indeed. It's also raw, but every instrument can be heard well, so the production job is well done. Guys handle their instruments, and vocalist is good enough, but could be a tad more imaginative with his voice. The cover artwork is definitely different, if not that good. It tells what lyrics are about... Well, some of them, as other topics include varying sexual activities and blood drinking.

Spanish language alone cannot lift Eternal Grave above the mass of death metal bands. However, they are skilled, so I hope that they could inject their brutality with some individuality, too. Worth of closer investigation, if you like old school death metal the heavy way.

(originally written for ArchaicMetallurgy.com in 2007)

For those people who don´t know them, Eternal Grave is a ten years old Death Metal band in the under scene in Argentina.
This album called "Obras de una mente enferma" ("Works of a sick mind") is an interesting release: from the biginning to the end we can hear pure and genuine Death Metal, this means extremely fast music, dense guitars, shooting drums, rotted voices and gore lyrics.
The main problem of this band is their influence: they are too similar to Cannibal Corpse and they are far to make something new or original. May be we can say that they translate the Cannibal Corpse´s message into the Spanish Language.
Songs like "Penetrando a Úrsula" ("Penetrating Úrsula"), "Virgen no morirás" ("You won´t die Virgin"),which according to one of the musicians is a "little revenge against a past affaire" , "Sádico Placer" ("Sadic Pleasure"), "Cardiofagia", "Saborea mi Carne" ("Taste my flesh"), "Síndrome de Reinfeld" ("Reinfeld´s Syndrome") and "Vacío tu interior" ("To drain your interior") make a psycho atmosphere, and summon the old cannibal Corpse: blood, mutilation, torture and pervertions.
The song "Crisalida" makes reference of the internal struggles of these created characters.
"Nazareno" is an antichrist song and "Pus" is a instrumental grindcord song.


Conslusion: Is a good LP, is a pure Death metal album, with explicit Lyrics, very fast and brutal voices, not much to say about a classical death metal band, but may be they have to be more original and try to find an own style, they sing in Spanish and that´s good to the genre, in my opinion is for those sick minds who love gore and this kind of themes.