"Exhumed (A Grave collection)" CD by Grave

by Björn Thorsten Jaschinski (22.10.2008) The cover of this Best Of album done by the oldest active Swedish Death Metal Band is a bit colourful, humourous and daring... The liaison with Century Media lasted for one single, seven studio albums, one MCD and a live recording. These 18 tracks are all taken from regular studio albums, the rarities have already been used on the "Morbid ways to die" box set. What a pity: "Black dawn" with its terrific primitivity (taken from the album "And here I die... satisfied") would have featured Corpse, the pre-Grave outfit...Be that as it may, all the classic killer songs still wreaking havoc to your neck muscles are aboard: the title songs and two additional tracks from the first three albums each, and even the newer stuff since "Back from the grave" get their share, even unpopular "Hating life". Welcome to this pathology lesson - let’s dig out some old school brutality!