Graveyard Dirt - My Scourge, My Plague - review
Graveyard Dirt - My Scourge, My Plague - review
Tracklist
01. A Poisoned Seed02. Her Haunting Smile
03. The Sirens Refrain
A review by
Marcel Hubregtse December 16, 2015
So, Graveyard Dirt are still alive and well and thank God for that. Anyone who loves their death doom the old school way with loads of hints of extremely early Anathema would do well to stop reading and immediately buy this e.p. My Scourge, My Plague is a natural continuation of the band's previous For Grace Or Damnation and Shadows Of Old Ghosts releases.
Expect to get well-produced and well-structured death doom with the emphasis on melody spanning three tracks in 27 minutes.
Opener "A Poisoned Seed" kicks off in the typical Graveyard Dirt way with a riff that immediately nestles itself in your head and sounds like a doomed up version of something that Gary Moore could have written. A quintessentially Irish tone to the guitar playing. This Irishness can also be found on the remaining tracks "Her Haunting Smile" and "The Sirens Refrain". Typically Irish, but without veering off into folk music territory. Think in that sense of the Irishness a death doom band such as Mourning Beloveth displays. All three songs build up to a climax and need a little time to grow on the listener. All aspects of the e.p. once again combine what's best about the early years of the Peaceville Three with a some Irishness thrown into the equation. However, some might find Paul Leyden's vocals a tad hard to digest since it comes across as a mix of Darren White and Tom G. Warrior.
If you're looking for innovation in your metal then you can safely ignore My Scourge, My Plague, but if you want your death doom played well and well-composed and for it to stick in your head because of the melodies then look no further. Graveyard Dirt once again delivers a top quality release. Hopefully, the next album will come to us a bit sooner than in five years time.
Written by Marcel Hubregtse | December 16, 2015
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I've been waiting for something new from this since I discovered them during the MS Awards 2010. Can't wait to give this a listen. Hopefully they won't wait another 5 years to give us another full-length.
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A Marcel review on the Storm?!?! Whawhawhawhaaaaaat?! Marcel, were you drunk and accidentally posted this review to the wrong zine...?  
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Wow Mike Hotel wrote a review, hopefully it wont be last
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Posts: 40071 Written by psykometal on 16.12.2015 at 16:16 Pim of Officium Triste wrote it for Lords Of Metal 
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Glad to see a Marcel review on MS again! Sounds like something I may enjoy when I'm in the mood for some classic death doom.
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Posts: 64480 Written by Maco on 16.12.2015 at 17:08 Mike - M Hotek - H Its incials of Marcel Hubgretse name ...
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Posts: 40071 Written by Maco on 16.12.2015 at 17:08 Are you trying to be as dumb as K7 now? Any normal person knows that it stands for MH (duh Marcel Hubregtse)
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Posts: 64480 Written by psykometal on 16.12.2015 at 16:16 I think we can nominate this one for ms awards, like other write in chat<gory
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Posts: 3593 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 16.12.2015 at 20:19 I can be dumb, but not THAT dumb. 
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Posts: 40071 Written by Maco on 16.12.2015 at 21:25 valid point there. No one can be as dumb as that.
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Posts: 3593 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 16.12.2015 at 21:28 Don't be so mean with him.
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To go on topic, I've never listened to this band before but if it sounds a little bit like early Anathema then it should not be so bad.
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Posts: 64480 Written by Maco on 16.12.2015 at 21:25 you need a one dance whit hotel baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va4h_p9YAhc
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Soooooo... back to the album. Will defo check it out. Nice to see the old bastard come out of retirement to show he's still got game.
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"Mike Hotel" my oh my... 
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Glad to see a Marcel review after long time and hope you don't take another five year break for your next review. The review sounds good as well. I am tired of looking for too much innovation in my metal and a good ol' straight forward death doom metal album will just do the trick for me. Will definitely check this out.
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Posts: 40071 Written by 3rdWorld on 17.12.2015 at 18:45 It was only a five year break over here at MS During those five years I have done 945 reviews for LoM.
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Posts: 64480 Written by Darkside Momo on 17.12.2015 at 18:23 hello delta mike, aka real name Sierra mike
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Next BE will make posts where every letter will be translated to NATO code words, and he'll expect us to read it
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Back to the album... Seeing as it's fucking Star Wars Weekend, STAY ON TARGET.
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