Gravetaker | Sheer Lunacy | Iron Bonehead Productions (Demo)

Release Date: 22 December 2025

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Finland

Gravetaker enters the world with “Sheer Lunacy”, a debut that has the cold temperament you would expect from a Finnish duo raised on old death metal and underground tension. Lunatik and Atavistic Mouth mix their influences with a stubborn devotion to raw expression, keeping the music rough around the edges and heavy in atmosphere. The album moves with deliberate weight, never trying to charm you, simply pulling you into its dark current. Iron Bonehead Productions gives it the proper physical form, which suits the pair’s old school instincts.

“Sheer Lunacy” unfolds like a long descent. The band moves through slow, brooding passages and violent explosions without warning, creating a shifting landscape that remains unified in tone. The sound has a lot of grime and echo, as if everything was recorded inside a concrete chamber somewhere beneath frozen soil. Guitars swirl around the vocals in chaotic layers, while the drums batter forward with a stubborn pulse. The riffs stretch out and twist in unpredictable ways, giving each track its own path even when the general atmosphere remains hostile and foggy.

What makes the album stand out is the willingness to roam between hypnotic repetition, frantic aggression and bleak melody. The songs stretch comfortably into long runtimes, allowing ideas to settle in before the next storm hits. The duo do not play for easy excitement, instead choosing to build pressure slowly. When the violent sections erupt, they arrive with unfiltered madness, screeching divebombs and frantic attacks that make the calmer passages crawl with unease. The transitions carry a rough charm that suits the music perfectly.

By the time “Sheer Lunacy” reaches its final moments, the journey feels complete, not because it resolves anything, but because Gravetaker commits to the same unpolished vision from the first seconds to the last. The album rewards anyone into death metal that sounds ancient, unhinged and untouched by modern expectations. It is the type of debut that shows a band comfortable living in darkness, building an atmosphere through instinct rather than refinement.

Score: 7.0

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