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1 BODY 6 GRAVES
1 Body 6 Graves EP

Self-released (2022)
Rating: 6.5/10

No, I don’t like the band name – seems a bit metalcore to me – but hey, give this debut EP a chance musically and it’s a grower. Very much channelling a mid-to-late 90s style of death metal, Converse, Indiana-based outfit 1 Body 6 Graves deal with heavy, growling grooves that can work at mid-paced menace or faster dabbling. The vocals of Kurtis Hall are guttural yet decipherable as the combo embarks on very catchy techniques that remain popular to this day with bands that like to keep the extremity simple yet infectious.

Here, you get six solid tracks after a short introduction, and for me it’s Shane Bryant’s fearsome drumming which holds the whole thing together. His backbone brings belligerence but a tidiness as the band chugs along with the twin guitar attack of Culley Burton and Derek Hill and that hefty bass of William Matthews.

This is not particularly atmospheric or putrid death metal. The air of familiarity is strong throughout but you are forced to rage along to the concise grinds of ‘Writhing Mass Of Bodies’ or my favourite slab ‘Bestial Resection’ with its mid-tempo bashing. Another top track is ‘Gore Décor’ with its cascading introduction of nodding percussion before the pace really picks up.

For me, the band which springs to mind throughout this EP is Malevolent Creation; the melodic yet heavyweight crunching grooves and those guttural bellows. I’m pretty sure 1 Body 6 Graves is aware of its limitations but it is death metal that although at times generic, doesn’t require flashy technicality to ram its message home.

Neil Arnold

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