South Korean Metal/Industrial Project GRAVE GENERATOR Reveals The Future of Metal With Debut EP “There Is No Peace Amongst The Stars”; Out On CD And Digital via GIVE/TAKE!
- Davide Pulito
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South Korea’s metal/industrial project GRAVE GENERATOR is proud to announce that his debut EP “There Is No Peace Amongst The Stars” is out today March 20th via GIVE/TAKE.
Combining the songcraft and aggression of metal with abrasive textures created solely using synthesizers, GRAVE GENERATOR is the raving distillation of decades of audio experimentation by South Korea-based engineer, musician, and producer Nic Heidt. The project honors the genre’s heritage while challenging the conventions of its sounds and traditional instrumentation.
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GRAVE GENERATOR began with a question: Can you even create metal without guitars and bass? Not industrial, with its driving four on the floor beats and club-ready arrangements, but screeching, visceral, double-kick-laden metal suited to mosh pits? After finding a musical collaborator willing to hack through this aural jungle in Jonathan Ford of Dissociate, the answer, is hell-fucking-yes.
Freed from sonic limitations and conventions, GRAVE GENERATOR explores tuning, timing, and tonal shifts that would be impossible if attempted by traditional metal projects. With his unique toolkit of synthesizers and software, the artist was able to amalgamate his myriad influences, which include everything from Nile and Testament to Prodigy and Stabbing Westward, into something both sonically arresting and violently intense.
Amidst the thrash, groove, and industrial-metal influences (including hints of peak-era Ministry), there are truly surprising moments throughout the EP. Paying homage to the metal gods while subverting the genre was always the plan:
“I felt like metal had stopped surprising me lately. It was beginning to sound very homogenous. The guitar and bass tones, the drums, certain vocal layers...they all just felt too similar to each other. I haven't popped in a new album and thought, 'Damn, what is that?' forever. I want to change that.” - Nic Heidt
GRAVE GENERATOR is a love letter to metal, while intentionally destroying its foundational elements. It is the metallic synthesis of everything that makes you feel what you don’t want to.
Own “There Is No Peace Amongst The Stars” on CD or digital and experience the future of metal now.
Tracklist:
1. Excavating Marrow
2. Good Night
3. Spine Factory
4. Betrayal
5. 1 of 1,000
Written, performed, produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Nicolas Heidt. Assistant engineering by Jonathan Ford. Photos by Kim Byung Su. Design and layout by J. Lexvold.
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