GRAVA
(
DK/FO
)
Sludge
The Danishtrio plays atmospheric sludge metal and has released two albums, Weight ofGod (2022) and, recently, The Great White Nothing (2024).
In theirown words, Grava plays songs about moments of death as seen through the eyes ofthe dying. Through the eyes of 128 crew members who died on the Franklinexpedition in the Arctic in 1845, a Swedish nobleman who was executed in 1707,40 passengers in a tragic train accident just outside Copenhagen, a soldierdying in his muddy World War I trench. The sound of these glimpses of lifeending is bleak, unpolished, and crushing. Death leaves lifeless the gaze, inone song slowly, in another abruptly, and the music stops.
