New song: GRAVE DESECRATOR – A Witching Whore

Proudly presents the premiere of

 

GRAVE DESECRATOR

"A Witching Whore"

 

From the forthcoming full length

"Dust to Lust"

 

Release date: June 17, 2016

 

 

Formats

CD

Gatefold double LP

 

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GRAVE DESECRATOR dole out brutal music for the raw and the hooked. Their forthcoming third album ‘Dust To Lust’ keeps essentially true to the spirit of metal made in Brazil. There is boiling anger born in the face of violence, rampant political corruption, religious decadence, and a daily struggle to stay alive. Turning to straight evil their answer comes with exalting sarcasm, striving towards lustful nights and rising into their obscure and sinister convictions.

Following the extreme path of their Brazilian predecessors, GRAVE DESECRATOR are true torch bearers of the underground and firmly place themselves among the ranks of entities such as SARCÓFAGO, early SEPULTURA, and even early SLAYER.
Founded in 1998 in Rio de Janeiro, GRAVE DESECRATOR have already firmly established a reputation as one of the most savage and brutal South American metal bands through the release of the two full-length albums ‘Sign of Doom’ (2008) and ‘Insult’ (2010) as well as several well-received split collaborations and EPs.
Now GRAVE DESECRATOR are ready to defend their metal heritage once again with ‘Dust To Lust’. Raise your fists and bang those heads!

 

Guitarist and vocalist Butcherazor comments on behalf of the band: "The track ‘A Witching Whore’ is based on a narrative about a mystical and unknown character from Rio de Janeiro in the XVIII Century, known as ‘Bárbara dos Prazeres’ (‘Barbara of the Delights’). She was probably an even more gruesome and bloody Brazilian version of the infamous Elizabeth Bathory. We are the first band to evoke Bárbara’s memory in music. She was a famous prostitute in Rio at the time, yet over the years she grew depraved. In witchcraft and black magic she found a possible solution to bring her once splendorous beauty back: virgin blood! Barbara was responsible for bloodbaths sacrificing hundreds of newborn children. We are musically expressing all the torments this woman carried out on her victims with harsh riffs dragged from a devastating foundation, an outstanding guitar solo, as well as highlights reflecting the apex of pain. Even most people living in Rio have not heard about this horrendous story. This veiled secrecy and dark contrast with open and ‘sunny’ Rio that most of you might associate with this city give the essential grey touch to this song. Embark onto this journey, where death is certain, but can come painfully slow."

The band comments on their forthcoming album: "Our new album ‘Dust to Lust’ is expressing what GRAVE DESECRATOR are about. It is aimed straight at the heart of religion, the misconception of ‘god", salvation, peace, and all those elements, which provide the breeding ground for corrupted and twisted convictions. Of course, this is nothing new in the realm of black or death metal. Yet as Brazilians, we are nowadays witnessing a period of intense mission and conversion by radical evangelists spreading through our country. We give them a hard fistful of rejection as this is personal and happening right in front of our eyes!"

 

Cover artist Zbigniew M. Bielak states: "With all its contrasts, hostility, intolerance, corruption, Brazil has proven to be a time capsule for the mundane times of uniformity and facilitation, which nowadays render the western metal so tame and complacent. That being said, GRAVE DESECRATOR’s story is no different from the ones of SARCÓFAGO, SEPULTURA or even SLAYER in their tough formative ’80s. In rivers of rehearsal sweat and against all odds, album by album, they slowly polished their rough stone into a deadly blade. And now it is time to bleed. It is not easy to pinpoint the spirit of Brazilian extreme metal – it is a fine mixture of tanned sexuality and funerary sacrilege that only few could convey the way SARCÓFAGO or SEXTRASH did. These four derailed rovers of abomination and forbidden fun certainly can! It has been an honour to embark on this journey with them and for once illustrate a flawless 80’s album. I praise the old Brazilian scene and SARCÓFAGO’s ‘Rotting’ cover is among my favourite artworks of all time, so obviously the artwork for ‘Dust to Lust’ pays some homage here and there. The inner artwork is yet another tribute – to HR Giger, whose spirit strongly permeated the aesthetics 80’s metal, and about whose passing I learnt, while staying with the guys in Rio."

 

 

Tracklisting
1. Intro (Dust To Lust)
2. Temple Of Abominations
3. Funeral Mist
4. Gods Of Death
5. A Witching Whore
6. Host Desecration
7. Anathema Bloodlust
8. Bleed For Worship
9. Memento Mori
10. One More Soul
11. Mephistophallus In Occultopussy
12. Perpetual Oath

Line-up
Butcherazor: guitars & vocals
Black Sin and Damnation: guitars
Élson "El" Necrogoat: bass
Márcio Slaughterer: drums

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