GRACELESS - Chants From Purgatory LP (Blue Vinyl)

So far, it’s a 100/100 score to me. The artwork is a set of demonic, hell-like drawings by Daemorph Art. The picture shows one of the four horses of the Apocalypse, a Kraken-like creature, double headed D&D features, loads of corpses, fire and teeth; it makes me want to explore it like I did with Beneath the Remains and Cause of Death and that’s a great compliment for the artwork, I say. The sound of the record is balanced, even though I hear it from a small set (first time was off YT through laptop speakers; I’d rather test my JBL-8 speakers with this CD). When the breaks roll in, there’s no gap in music like some OSDM records still have. When the band speeds up, all instruments are still clearly recognizable. There is some Exodus-like riffing in Gates to the Gallows and apart from Bolt Thrower (obvious? Yeah, as Kreft wears a BT shirt on the inlay) and there are more heros of old to be heard as influence. 1990-Iron Maiden comes to mind, Master of Puppets, Hell Awaits, Paradise Lost – Draconian Times.