Turbulent Times

Grief (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 12, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Southern Lord
• ASIN: B0000787FT
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #348,453 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars listen at your own risk, December 31, 2002

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Crypt "thecrypt777" (Arkham) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbulent Times (Audio CD)

This band would have been proud to wear the title of "Slowest Band In The World". This was my first taste of Grief. I had been hearing about them for years, but never got around to getting one of their albums. Although I had heard and read that their music was "utterly depressing", "heavy beyond words", and "slooooowww", I was not prepared for the impact this music left on me. 67 minutes of pure DOOM/death Metal. It was as if every last bit of well-being, hope, and contentment was drained completely, and replaced by the bitterest, saddest, most hopeless feelings.... and I loved it! They say it takes a sad song to make a sad person feel better. Very true, however Grief really does push the depression quite far.
Musically you can say they sound like eyehategod, Paramaecium, and early Morgion combined and HEAVILY sedated. There aren't any flutes, violins, operatic vocals, Shakespearean lyrics or keyboards however. The sound is very raw and unbelievably heavy. Just pure, raw, unadorned DOOM. A big influence on newer bands like Burning Witch and Khanate. Songs move slower than snails, but there are brief faster, more uptempo Celtic Frost/Black Sabbath-ish segments here and there that take you by suprise. Check this out if you want your Metal slow and depressing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have, February 25, 2003

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Mark Golde (Warwick RI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbulent Times (Audio CD)

Any one who calls themselves a fan of Grief needs to own
this cd. It has stuff from their split releases with
Dystopia, 13, Soilent Green, 16, and Suppression. Also
on this disc is alternate, unreleased versions of classics
like "Depression", "I Hate You" (from the out-of-print Come
To Grief cd), and so forth. If you don't know Grief you
are truley missing out on one of the heaviest, slowest,
monsterous doom/death bands on the planet. I feel a should give one a disclaimer though- This isn't you're daddy's doom rock,
this makes band's like EYEHATEGOD look upbeat in comparison.
Consider yourself warned! Sadly- this is the last release that
Grief has left us with. All mourn the gods of sludge/doom.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Jesus Christ, March 11, 2011

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A Dinosaur-Shaped Car "Homosexual Porn" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbulent Times (Audio CD)

With Eyehategod defining the NOLA sound, Grief were the Northern flag-bearers of blues-pillaging sludge that combined the swampy heaviness of Black Sabbath with the unhinged nervous breakdown quality of hardcore punk. Like the former band, Grief had a certain black humor that made their music seem simultaneously more human and more dismal (because it's only funny in the right ways) than any modern sludge darlings.

This is a really solid compilation of odds & ends that's about as good as any of their "real" albums. Those bluesy swinging earworms are fairly sparse here compared to any given EHG record, perhaps because of Grief's crust punk background, but the band's grasp of tension and willfully uncomfortable yet cathartic dynamics was impeccable.