GRAVE MIASMA - Endless Pilgrimage MLP (Black Vinyl)

Housed in a gatefold jacket with a poster.

Grave Miasma have always been relentlessly heavy with their riff work, and in this tradition the guitars on Endless Pilgrimage are thick as a giant fucking tombstone. They're complimented by some occasional haunting cleaner guitar work featured on "Utterance of the Foulest Spirit" and some sitar on "Yama Transforms to the Afterlife" to drive home the feel of making sacrifices to Shiva or Yama or Kali or whatever. But the other big contributor to the atmosphere of this album is the vocals. The frontman's growls are echoy and yet remain clear and understandable enough to have a commanding weight behind them as if he's the high priest in this sacrificial rite. Moments like him going "I SHALL BECOME!" in "Purgative Circumvolution" send shivers down my spine, and him shouting "To the crescent moon of Shiva I crawl" at the end of the same song is equally as powerful.