Grief

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Grief
General information
origin Boston , Massachusetts , United States
Genre (s) Sludge
founding 1991, 2001, 2006
resolution 2005, 2008
Founding members
Terry Savastano (until 2001)
Vocals , guitar
 Jay Stiles (until 1993)
Pete Donovan (until 1993)
Bass , drums
 Randy Odierno (until 1998)
former members
Drums
 Tim Morse (1993)
guitar
 Steve Nelson (1993-2008)
Drums
 Rick Johnson (1993-1996, 2000-2001)
Vocals, guitar
 Jeff Hayward (1994-2008)
Bass, vocals
 Eric. C. Harrison (1998-2008)
Drums
 Chuck Conlon (1999-2000)
Vocals, guitar
 John Heidenrich (2008)
Drums,
percussion
Ray McCaffrey (2008)

Grief ( English : suffering ) was founded in 1991 and dissolved in 2006 American sludge band from Boston , Massachusetts , which in 2009 as Come to Grief reformed.

history

Grief was founded in 1991 by three former Disrupt members Randy Odierno (bass), Jay Stiles (vocals) and Terry Savanstano (guitar) and drummer Pete Donovan. Grief released the song Depression as the first single on his own Grievance label , followed by various EPs and split releases , including splits with Dystopia and 16 . In 1993 Grief published the compilation of her previous work under the title of the EP Dismal , published a year earlier . For Dismal , Grief worked with the independent label Common Cause. The following year, Grief released her regular debut album Come to Grief through Century Media . The 2011 album was featured in Decibel Magazine as a forgotten classic of extreme metal and the popular sludge at the time of review. Grief then switched the contract partner to Pessimiser Records , with whom they cooperated until the end of their career. Pessimier released the albums Miserably Ever After , Torso and the final And Man Becomes the Hunted .

Over the years, Grief changed musicians several times, primarily the position of the drummer was often discussed. None of the founding members was an active member of the band until the time of the dissolution. In 1993 Donovan and Stiles left the band and were replaced by Rick Johnson on drums and Steve Nelson as guitarist. When Johnson left the band in 1996, Grief played with a wide variety of drummers. At times, Odierno, who had previously played drums at Disrupt, was the drummer, after which the band hired Eric Harrison as bassist. After Odierno's exit, Tim Morse from Anal Cunt and Chuck Conlon followed. After Rick Johnson returned in 2000 to leave the band again in 2001, Grief ended her career. After this initial breakup, Southern Lord released the Turbulent Times compilation with rare material from the band.

Grief released four albums, various split releases, EPs and singles. After a reunion in 2005, which was followed by a live album and a single, the band split up again in 2009 and reformed themselves as Come to Grief in 2015.

style

Grief is commonly assigned to the sludge. According to Alex Henderson, the band's slow and powerful guitar playing was influenced by Black Sabbath , Saint Vitus and Candlemass . However, compared to these bands, Grief was "jagged, noisy, rough and brutally dissonant." The singing was a tortured screaming song that was similar to that in Death Metal , Black Metal and Grindcore . The mixture of grindcore-like vocals and riffs influenced by Black Sabbath made Grief one of the "most interesting alternative metal bands of the 1990s", according to Henderson . According Treppel Grief brought their experience from the hardcore scene from Massachusetts into their style. According to Henderson, Grief made a huge impact on stoner rock without actually playing in the genre.

Discography

Albums
  • 1994: Come to Grief (Century Media)
  • 1996: Miserably Ever After (Pessimiser Records)
  • 1998: Torso (Pessimiser Records)
  • 2000: ... and Man Will Become the Hunted (Pessimiser Records)
Compilations
  • 1993: Dismal (Common Cause)
  • 2002: Turbulent Times (Southern Lord)
live
  • 2006: Alive (Southern Lord)
Split, singles, EPs
  • 1992: Grief (single, Grievance Records)
  • 1992: Dismal (EP, Grievance Records)
  • 1993: Lifeless / Sleep (split with Dystopia, Life Is Abuse)
  • 1993: Grief / 13 (split at 16, Grievance Records)
  • 1994: Trigger Happy / Pessimiser (split at 16, Pessimiser Records)
  • 1995: Green Vegetable Matter / Soilent Green (split with Soilent Green, Pessimiser Records)
  • 1995: No Choice / Terrorism of Thought… Terrorism of Sound. (Split with Suppression, Bovine Records)
  • 1995: Corrupted / Grief (split with Corrupted, HG Fact)
  • 1998: Bored / At Dawn They Sleep (Split at 16, Pessimiser Records)
  • 1999: He's No Good to Me Dead - 74 Minutes of Extreme Pain (Split with Sourvein, Bongzilla, Negative Reaction and Subsanity, Game Two Records)
  • 2008: European Tour (single, Alerta Antifascista Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Alex Henderson: Grief. Allmusic, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  2. ^ A b Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Doom, Goth & Stoner Metal . Rockdetector, 2003, ISBN 978-1-901447-14-9 , pp. 190 .
  3. ↑ a b Jeff Treppel: the Lazarus pit: griefs come to grief. (No longer available online.) Decibel magazine, archived from the original on July 3, 2015 ; Retrieved June 29, 2015 .