Greber - Cemetery Preston (2018) – Harsh Sludge metal, no guitar, no fear

The astonishing album cover of "Cemetery Preston" lives up to the sound quality of Greber's third album. The band is a Canadian duo who plays sludge metal supported only by the vibration of the strings of a bass (high on distortion) and by the resonance of a drum (saturated in Doom Metal aura). It´s seems to me that  a new sludge face is settling in 2018

Greber delivers a very intense sound, the lack of guitar riffs is compensated by the infernal vibe from the bass. Backhanded Interest kicks off by accelerating the tempo, the shouted and distant vocals associated with hardcore speed and the usual breakdowns make the perfect presentation of the duo's style. The bass's deepness with brusque pitch changes let the sound become grotesque and visceral, and those qualities are fundamental to create a good dirty sludge metal. Songs like The Wreckers with their resounding groove or Grave Plot with a scant of stoner rock will resonate in your head for hours. Different styles also make themselves heard, sometimes they excel at hardcore vocation with speed and hurried vocals as in Prophetic and Our Burnt Treasure. But the best moments are when the sludge violence mingles with the doom groove. From that blend are born musical references like By Any Other Name in its malignant atmosphere, or No One but You with its nefarious rhythm.

With a simplistic approach Greber makes himself felt with his thriving music. The experience may be called exotic, or may be called bold, but it can never be called mediocre. When the sound is made to cross guts and vibrate to the bone, the absence of guitar is nothing more than a small detail to be ignored.

Tracklist
1.Backhanded Interest 03:44
2.The Wreckers 04:01
3.Prophetic 03:03
4.By Any Other Name 04:06
5.Overdraft 02:38
6.Our Burnt Treasures 03:12
7.Grave Plot 03:15
8.No One But You 03:07
9.The Closer We Got 08:16

Final conclusion:

Marcelo Hissa