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{Thread posted with mod approval. Thanks!) Hi everybody! We're Graveborn, a death metal act out of Boston. We're a five piece, but two of us are goons who've been hanging out on these forums for quite a while. We recently wrote a 4 track EP, and since the Musician's Lounge seemed to dig it, we thought some of the folks in here who like their metal growly would too. {fair warning to all: if you don't like music where dudes are yellin' a whole bunch, you probably won't like us!)  Where can I hear this devil music? We love bandcamp, since it gives us stats about our album without having to pay up front! You can also get our EP for free from there: http://gravebornma.bandcamp.com/album/a-vile-genesis Although giving us a dollar would be cool, since.... That art looks like you threw it together in a day, haha Well, if you're so smart, how about you draw something for us? We'll probably even give you  MONEY for your hard work!This is so brutal I ate my own balls. Where else can I get stuff from y'all? We got a facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gravebornma where you can yak at us. We yell a lot but we're mostly friendly. We worked real hard on this material, and we've got a live band that's gonna be playing shows in New England pretty soon. Any feedback would be massively helpful and appreciated, since we are in the midst of writing our full-length. (and saving up for better art assets). Thanks for listening, goons!
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 18:06 |
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| # ? May 20, 2013 05:26 |
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 Thank you, downloading! I love good angry-yelling-about-stuff-I-can't-understand-because-yelling music. In all seriousness, you are good in my book, no headaches or instant repulsion when listening to this. Also, is that an abstract goat in the album art? Haha, I would like to help with something but I'm getting buried with homework at the uni, let's wait for another goon to step in. 
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 18:14 |
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I thought it was a goat/ram as well, but upon further inspection it looks like it might be a candle flame, perhaps?
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 18:17 |
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Believe it or not, it is a woman breathing fire. Illustrates my point. Draw me some monsters, goons! And take my money. we have a gmail! If you are an artist, please let us know you exist at gravebornma@gmail.com . SeraphSlaughter fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2013 around 18:22 |
| # ? Feb 11, 2013 18:18 |
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I'm 30 seconds into the first track and I can already tell I'm going to like this a lot. You guys are great. If you ever make your way out to Cleveland or Columbus, I'll be there.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 19:00 |
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This is some good stuff, I threw you some bucks due to my geographic location precluding me from buying tickets to a show.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 20:09 |
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Colour posted:I'm 30 seconds into the first track and I can already tell I'm going to like this a lot. You guys are great. If you ever make your way out to Cleveland or Columbus, I'll be there. Thank you! We're certainly eager to get this stuff rolling live. Trying to keep it in the New England area for now since we're fairly unknown/don't have a proper long-distance transport yet. Grab Meatcastle posted:This is some good stuff, I threw you some bucks due to my geographic location precluding me from buying tickets to a show. Wow, thank you so much! Every dollar we get is going to be put toward nice physical copies of the EP/shirt designs + production for shows. People who gave us cash for the digital copy are definitely priority for receiving a physical copies when we make 'em!
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 20:27 |
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SeraphSlaughter posted:Believe it or not, it is a woman breathing fire. Illustrates my point. Draw me some monsters, goons! And take my money. I will message you later, if I don't forget.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 22:44 |
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Hey I don't hate this. I don't listen to a ton of metal anymore these days but I'll probably give this a couple spins and toss it around. Good stuff goons.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 22:47 |
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Vocalist here, glad you guys are enjoying the tracks. Mad props goes out to SeraphSlaughter, dude wrote and recorded all the songs. I just contributed a riff or two here and there and recorded some growls, but he's the one who put in the large majority of work. Really looking forward to writing and recording some more stuff soon, we've already got a couple of tracks in the works!
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 23:17 |
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Good stuff, a little too core for my tastes but it's still drat good. You'll rattle some goddamn heads live, I'm going to take a listen to the rest of the EP tonight.
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 23:34 |
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This is literally the worst thing I've ever heard but differing opinions are what make these forums great!!
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| # ? Feb 11, 2013 23:48 |
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Holy Calamity! posted:This is literally the worst thing I've ever heard but differing opinions are what make these forums great!! As a way of apology, have this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...oLu7znwQ0#t=30s it's slightly worse! I'm not very good at apologies 
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 00:03 |
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SeraphSlaughter posted:As a way of apology, have this: Whoa that's a really great video thanks!! I'm just one of those curmudgeons who doesn't like music where dudes are yellin' a whole bunch, as you put it. I thought that maybe your stuff could convert me but instead it just reinforced my opinion if anything..sorry..
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 00:14 |
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Holy Calamity! posted:Whoa that's a really great video thanks!! I'm just one of those curmudgeons who doesn't like music where dudes are yellin' a whole bunch, as you put it. I thought that maybe your stuff could convert me but instead it just reinforced my opinion if anything..sorry.. That's fine! Can't please everyone, if we can get even just a couple of non-metalheads to listen and enjoy our music that would be pretty incredible.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 00:32 |
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You forgot the -core after death. Nah, but anything about liches and satan is cool in my book.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 00:33 |
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You guys kinda sound like Skepsis era Through the Eyes of the Dead.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 00:39 |
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carnassials posted:You forgot the -core after death. We are most definitely some type of -core band, but I feel like subgenres are so nebulous that just saying "death metal" is a little simpler, rather than something like "technical/blackened death metal(core)", as one blog called us. That's a slash AND pharentheses.  TheIllestVillain posted:You guys kinda sound like Skepsis era Through the Eyes of the Dead. A top 10 album for me, so no doubt!
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 00:55 |
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This rocked so hard it made my balls twitch.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 00:59 |
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I really like the lyrics, even though I couldn't understand anything of them on the tracks. Nice.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 01:05 |
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This just made it to my gym playlist and now I'll patiently wait a full-length. Come out to Albany, NY sometime!
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 02:10 |
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This isn't half bad! I'll have to see if you guys are playing next time I make it up to Boston. Not a big fan of drum machines, but I understand the "why" -- but still, nice work!
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 02:21 |
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I don't listen to metal much these days but I used to listen to a lot (black, thrash, crust punk, some grind, etc). Never was into death too much but you guys have enough black metal influence that I liked this EP. Keep it up. Unsolicited constructive criticism: The drums do have that artificial drum machine-gun sound at points. Not sure what you're using to sequence them, but look into using round robin samples if you aren't. Anaal Nathrakh use a drum machine on their albums and they do a really good job of making it sound natural, so it's definitely doable.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 02:57 |
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Thanks guys! I wrote/recorded this before I had a live drummer, so I had to go with the drum machine route. Luckily, I found someone that goes faster than the tempos I recorded these in, somehow  . Still sounds better.Omnikin posted:This just made it to my gym playlist and now I'll patiently wait a full-length. Come out to Albany, NY sometime! I will make sure there is the slammiest chug riff somewhere on the full length for liftin' purposes. hypersleep posted:I don't listen to metal much these days but I used to listen to a lot (black, thrash, crust punk, some grind, etc). Never was into death too much but you guys have enough black metal influence that I liked this EP. Keep it up. Strumming minor chords really fast is fun in a weirdly cathartic way. And your criticism is solicited! Any comments we can get can only help us sharpen our sound. Some goons in the Musician's Lounge had some nice constructive criticism that definitely effected how I'm going to have the full length album mixed. So thanks for listening! SeraphSlaughter fucked around with this message at Feb 12, 2013 around 03:01 |
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drat, those are some sickass riffs. I had to play Infernal Ascendance over a few times to get that drat riff out of my head. Definitely gonna by your stuff, It's great to see a good local metal band. Oh, and If you ever need a vocalist in a pinch, you should totally drop me a line.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 03:21 |
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As has been mentioned, it is a bit core-y which isn't really my thing. But i do kind of like it. Maybe its because your vocalist doesn't sound like a 15 year old scene kid, even though I'm not a fan of all the stuff he does. Also my first reaction was that your sound is a bit dry and you could have had more low end, but I might just be going deaf from trying to fix a track. Edit: Probably going deaf... and this is really growing on me. Good job. Nuclear Fetus fucked around with this message at Feb 12, 2013 around 05:07 |
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Nuclear Fetus posted:As has been mentioned, it is a bit core-y which isn't really my thing. But i do kind of like it. Maybe its because your vocalist doesn't sound like a 15 year old scene kid, even though I'm not a fan of all the stuff he does. Thanks I think! I'm not a huge fan on how the vocals are mixed as it sounds like the producer just layered a lot of my vocals together way too much, but I'm trying my hardest. My voice has been getting better due to the constant practicing, so hopefully by the time of the full length they should sound and be recorded way better.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 05:12 |
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This loving rocks. I agree though that the growl and the shrieks are are layered over each other sometimes in a weird way. You should have a talk with your producer, or scream at him until he pisses his pants.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 08:13 |
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This destroyed my face completely, good work. I sent some money since I live in the middle of nowhere and won't be able to get to any shows. Keep making more.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 09:54 |
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This is pretty fantastic, way better than I was expecting.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 11:38 |
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Yeah this should be good to work out to. Sent a few bucks your way as I don't think you'll be touring Australia in a hurry.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 12:20 |
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Put me down as "not for me" but I knew that going in. I sent it off to a bunch of my friends who love this stuff. They are enjoying it, so keep it up!
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 15:19 |
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Wow guys, thanks so much! Even those of you who aren't enjoying it are actually being nice, I thought goons were supposed to be meaner . Thanks for all the listens and comments so far, it only reinforces our will to work harder on our newer stuff! The comments on the vocal production I'm finding to be correct as well - TheDarkWind's voice has been steadily getting better (even though it was great to start with), and I find he doesn't really need as much layering as there was. Oh well, lessons learned for future releases!
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 18:19 |
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Excellent, I haven't listened to anything this good since Sikth. I see you're also on spotify.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 20:26 |
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Please name your actual album "we made some music about liches. hail satan." because that is the best title for a metal album. I feel like a muddier mix (black metal cassette tapes lol) might alleviate some of the tinniness on the drum, but that may not be a road you want to go down.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 20:35 |
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Nice! Any new metal in the Boston area is a good thing. I'll have to catch a show if you come to town. Where do you guys usually play? Great Scott? Middle East? Paradise? Also, ever play with Razormaze before?
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Time Machine posted:Nice! Any new metal in the Boston area is a good thing. I'll have to catch a show if you come to town. Where do you guys usually play? Great Scott? Middle East? Paradise? We're a pretty new band, we only finally added a drummer to our lineup about a month ago. I think that sometime by the end of this month or the middle of next we'll have our 4 songs down and will be ready to play live shows. We'll probably be hitting up a lot of those areas, as you mentioned. We're also friends with a couple of local metal acts like Pathogenic, Your Pain is Endearing, and Suffer the Destroyer so you can expect that we'll be playing shows with them as well.
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Bloke posted:Excellent, I haven't listened to anything this good since Sikth. I see you're also on spotify. Hey, thanks! That's good company to be in. And yeah, I distributed the EP to iTunes, Spotify, Amazon MP3 and a few other places with CDBaby. It cost a little bit, so on those services I think I set it to $.99 a song, just so people would be more inclined to get it from the bandcamp for free! Red_Mage posted:Please name your actual album "we made some music about liches. hail satan." because that is the best title for a metal album. I feel like a muddier mix (black metal cassette tapes lol) might alleviate some of the tinniness on the drum, but that may not be a road you want to go down. Haha, that was a bit of a simplification of the lyrical content, but it certainly catches people's interest. The more I listen to the tunes, the more I do agree I should have had the bass brought out a little more. Thanks for the feedback! Time Machine posted:Nice! Any new metal in the Boston area is a good thing. I'll have to catch a show if you come to town. Where do you guys usually play? Great Scott? Middle East? Paradise? This band has not played live shows quite yet, but all the members of it have played in those venues in other bands before. For example, I used to be in Your Pain Is Endearing, another local outfit, and that's where I cut my teeth playing metal in New England,. playing in venues like those you mentioned. We're super eager to play live, so hopefully our first show opportunity comes up soon! Haven't played with Razormaze, but saw them a bunch of times. Great stuff.
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| # ? Feb 12, 2013 21:19 |
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Just bought it From a Death Metal band member to another, I really like what you guys are doing! Keep up the good work and I hope to hear a full length soon. Jason (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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| # ? May 20, 2013 05:26 |
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For anyone else running Flashblock, the magic arrow to click is in the top-left corner of the page. It's nice to hear a non-electronic goon album. Keep on rockin'.
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