Groteska – Podzemne vode
Label: Miner Recordings
Year: 16.10.2015
Format: CD (Jewelcase)
Country: Serbia
Genre: Rock
Still: Dark, Gothic
I can say that new album of Groteska has been eagerly awaited, with great excitement, since I've discovered this band on Miner etiquete. Music of this band is completely undiscribeable in terms of the genre, but it is so well executed that listening to this album was real enjoyment.
Numerous influences can be heard in music of Groteska, from classical heavy metal, doom, goth rock, and all the way to black metal, and who knows what else, and it made very hard for me to do anything else 'till I've been listening to this album. Violines that can be heard straight away reminded me on My Dying Bride. Groteska is the band that for sure cares the artistical impression it will leave with its music, lirics and visual tools (here I mean on numerous videos the band has done so far). In musical sense, in Groteska's music you can hear influence of Sisters of Mercy. Guitar riffs are simple, but unbelievably effective. They are piercing your skin and flesh like a nidles. Predrag Rava knows how to control his instrument (guitar) and to produce on it some of the best rifffs I have heard of some home band. Pavle Sovilj with his vocal abilities for sure gives Groteska's music a special colour, trully unique on Serbian alternative and metal scene. Marko Nicović on drumms shows that he knows how to play this instrument. For all this reasons, Groteska will surely be the band to earn simply.
Igor Lončar, himself a remarkable musitian and very bussy sound ingeneer, signed as a produces for this album. Very intesting booklet was designed by Miloš Moravatz Savković.
Numerous influences can be heard in music of Groteska, from classical heavy metal, doom, goth rock, and all the way to black metal, and who knows what else, and it made very hard for me to do anything else 'till I've been listening to this album. Violines that can be heard straight away reminded me on My Dying Bride. Groteska is the band that for sure cares the artistical impression it will leave with its music, lirics and visual tools (here I mean on numerous videos the band has done so far). In musical sense, in Groteska's music you can hear influence of Sisters of Mercy. Guitar riffs are simple, but unbelievably effective. They are piercing your skin and flesh like a nidles. Predrag Rava knows how to control his instrument (guitar) and to produce on it some of the best rifffs I have heard of some home band. Pavle Sovilj with his vocal abilities for sure gives Groteska's music a special colour, trully unique on Serbian alternative and metal scene. Marko Nicović on drumms shows that he knows how to play this instrument. For all this reasons, Groteska will surely be the band to earn simply.
Igor Lončar, himself a remarkable musitian and very bussy sound ingeneer, signed as a produces for this album. Very intesting booklet was designed by Miloš Moravatz Savković.
On an album as compact as this one is, it is very hard to single out any of songs. There is not a second of monotony that botters. High level of qualitiy in musical arangerment, priductionvise filled wall of sound that simply draws you into the vortex of some strange cotton softness. I have to tell you that I haven't expected such a good album, but not because I am not a fan of this kind of music, but simply because this is a first time I am listening to Groteska on a full-length album. But now I was able to complete the impression about the band and the album that this band is able to make.
Great music.
Unbelievable atmosphere that stays present during the album. For sure the album that should be checked out and owned in personal collection.
Great music.
Unbelievable atmosphere that stays present during the album. For sure the album that should be checked out and owned in personal collection.
Written by: Igor Vlad Cepesh Živić
Rating : 10/10
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