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By Steve Earles Reviews - Audio May 17, 2018

Grave Lines – Fed Into The Nihilist Engine

Like Mogwai meeting Black Sabbath, this is music that mines dark inner depths. The music is given a chance to breathe, to surge and fall, like a painting composed of monochrome darkness.

I felt ‘the Nihilist Engine’ the album refers to could be the modern world we live in, a world that crushes hope if we let it.

I won’t mention too many comparisons to other bands, but I was reminded of Neurosis, Shrinebuilder, Bauhaus and Joy Division, even The Fall. Nevertheless, Grave Lines are very much their own beast.

Moving, original, powerful, and courageous, possibly the heaviest album – emotionally, musically, those are riffs so powerful it reaches you at a primal level.

(New Heavy Sounds)

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Steve Earles

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Steve Earles is author and co-author of numerous projects, including To End All Wars: The WWI Graphic Anthology, available summer 2014 (http://toendallwarscomic.wordpress.com/writers/).

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