Grief No Absolution

Something calling itself Grief No Absolution contacted FSS in late 2008 sending music it described as "bleak metal". It was a blizzard of distortion, envenomed with corrugated vocals and what sounded like guitars nearly overwhelmed by feedback and tape hiss. Information on the group or person was sparse. Output was limited to CDR releases with black-on-black graphics, some buttons and t-shirts. The point of origin appears to be the Southern Hemisphere. The combination of caustic tones that bored their way into the skull and the band's willful opacity was intriguing. GNA demands that its brutal, grating music be dealt with on its own demanding terms. Grief No Absolution is a crushing abandonment of frilly technique that has seeped into the darkest edges of metal, a reversion to a harrowing, bleak sound- decayed, scorched - and utterly unredeemed.

Grief No Absolution is truth in advertising. This is suffocating, horrifying, paranoid music - the soundtrack you hear when you've been demoted a circle of hell or two for insolence. The group, who formed in 2008 in the orb of primordial ooze that rotates near the Earth's core, makes Khanate look like more of a pastel black.
The Decibel Tolls July 21 2009

Roaring at the center of the group's sound are what appear to be vocals masticated into howling shards, while instrumentally Grief No Absolution's material is as raw and rabid as a scab picked so relentlessly it's become a cancerous blister.
Textura August 2009

Utterly devoid of discernable lyrics, percussion, or anything that you might describe as melody, there is something remarkably absorbing about Grief No Absolution's frostbitten ambience: magine, perhaps, if Brian Eno had decided to write an album called Music for Mausoleums.
Louis Pattison The Guardian August 17, 2009

Mika Vaino meets Eyehategod meets Metal Machine Music
Philip Sherburne Rhapsody

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