– 350gsm Jacket printed on rough cardboard
\n– 140g Black or White\/Black Marble Vinyl
\n– 8 pages 7×7 inch Booklet on 190gsm offset paper
\n– Limited to 200x Black Vinyl<\/p>\n
Hailing from Australia, GROTESQUE BLISS feature vocalist \/ bassist Bjorn of the equally mighty TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE and Grave Upheaval; guitarist Chris Burton, whose credentials stretch back to the ’90s with Param\u00e6cium, Cryptal Darkness, and then the successive The Eternal among others; and veteran drummer Matthew Southcombe, whose credits include Internecine Excoriation among others, filling out the lineup. In 2022, the trio promptly set about capturing their ancient doom-death. Two rehearsals followed, with a self-titled demo arriving in 2024.<\/p>\n
Now, that demo sees international release in expanded form, concluding with a cover of My Dying Bride’s classic “I Am the Bloody Earth.” Thus padded out to a full-length, GROTESQUE BLISS’ first long-form recording is a dark & disturbing display of paradigmatic doom-death, and unapologetically so. Granted, some parallels can be drawn to Grave Upheaval’s bleakness as well as TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE’s cavernousness – and, of course, Param\u00e6cium are a cult name among doom-death aficionados – but on Grotesque Bliss do they stick to a rigorous template of primeval lurch, caveman execution, and twisting, tendrilous songwriting that thankfully doesn’t wander into amorphous, all-atmosphere territory. Sometimes, almost fleetingly, will their stomp almost encroach upon the mid-tempo, but then GROTESQUE BLISS strip it back to bare-bones, suffocatingly slow. Vapor trails of leads add a touch of deeper melancholy, as do the tortured moans; otherwise, vocals plumb the abyss, and there is where you’ll stay. No light, no hope, no fun: this is Grotesque Bliss. <\/p>\n
Tracks:<\/strong><\/p>\n Genres:<\/strong> Death Metal, Doom Metal<\/p>\n GPSR Information:<\/strong> – 350gsm Jacket printed on rough cardboard – 140g Black or White\/Black Marble Vinyl – 8 pages 7×7 inch Booklet on 190gsm offset paper – Limited to 200x Black Vinyl Hailing from Australia, GROTESQUE BLISS feature vocalist \/ bassist Bjorn of the equally mighty TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE and Grave Upheaval; guitarist Chris Burton, whose credentials stretch […]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2805161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[435],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2805163","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-vinyl-f-h","7":"pa_band-grotesque-bliss","8":"pa_productgenre-death-metal","9":"pa_productgenre-doom-metal","10":"pa_productlabel-iron-bonehead-productions","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n\n
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\nIron Bonehead Productions
\nAuf dem Bock 29, 47669 Wachtendonk, Germany
\ninfo(at)ironbonehead.de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"