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(1991 – 2009)
United States of America (Boston, Massachusetts)
Grief was founded in 1991 by Terry Savastano and drummer Randy Odierno of crust band Disrupt. Grief’s sludgy doom metal brought extremely slow riffs to the metal underground. The band was heavily influenced by Black Sabbath, Eyehategod and doom warriors Saint Vitus. Grief’s music was jagged, noisy, harsh and brutally dissonant. Lead singer Jeff Hayward favored the sort of tortured, throat-shredding, screaming vocals that were quite common in death metal/black metal and grindcore, and that risk-taking combination of torturous vocals and slow, Sabbath-influenced riffs made Grief one of the more influential sludge/doom metal bands to emerge in the early ‘90s.
They broke up in 2001 mainly due to drummer problems - something that was an ongoing problem for the band from the start. They also cited what they called a “hostile environment for doom metal bands”. They reunited briefly in July 2005 to play a cluster of reunion shows.
The band had several 7”s including one with Dystopia and Corrupted each. A compilation album called Turbulent Times appeared in 2002 through Southern Lord. The group reunited for one show at the first annual New England Grind And Doom Fest on July 17, 2005 at The Middle East Cafe in Cambridge, MA. They were so excited by the response to this show that they began booking others, and they toured intermittently throughout 2005 and 2006.
Grief was founded in 1991 by Terry Savastano and drummer Randy Odierno of crust band Disrupt. Grief’s sludgy doom metal brought extremely slow riffs to the metal underground. The band was heavily influenced by Black Sabbath, Eyehategod and doom warriors Saint Vitus. Grief’s music was jagged, noisy, harsh and brutally dissonant. Lead singer Jeff Hayward favored the sort of tortured, throat-shredding, screaming vocals that were quite common in death metal/black metal and grindcore, and that risk-taking combination of torturous vocals and slow, Sabbath-influenced riffs made Grief one of the more influential sludge/doom metal bands to emerge in the early ‘90s.
They broke up in 2001 mainly due to drummer problems - something that was an ongoing problem for the band from the start. They also cited what they called a “hostile environment for doom metal bands”. They reunited briefly in July 2005 to play a cluster of reunion shows.
The band had several 7”s including one with Dystopia and Corrupted each. A compilation album called Turbulent Times appeared in 2002 through Southern Lord. The group reunited for one show at the first annual New England Grind And Doom Fest on July 17, 2005 at The Middle East Cafe in Cambridge, MA. They were so excited by the response to this show that they began booking others, and they toured intermittently throughout 2005 and 2006.
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Dismal
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ZaZaLord wrote:
everyone shutup
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malfiore_ wrote:
I think I fell in love with this band.
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Quense wrote:
Весело :)
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NorseDave wrote:
Great, great, great!
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Gorlad wrote:
http://mediafire.com/?jaajr7nlqgm47yh Hedorah's 'Detroit' EP. Crushing Sludge/Death/Grind
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PastorAlexandr wrote:
Джа подарил мне крылья
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Chuzhbogh wrote:
They fuckin' slay!
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ShredsofFlesh wrote:
My favorite band to listen to when I am pissed off .
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Velvet_Myx wrote:
Grief is what keeps us going.
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ShredsofFlesh wrote:
I can't get enough of this... These riffs are so heavy and addicting .
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ShredsofFlesh wrote:
Grief and Noothgrush... two of the bands who introduced me to Doom Metal. They will always be special to me.
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justinsp wrote:
GOOD GRIEF!
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fuck-hate wrote:
grief is great
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Ton87 wrote:
yeah grief
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adam50 wrote:
grief kurwa
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Lok-DoK wrote:
ахуенные ребята, прям по жирку
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noisefiend wrote:
I saw them at Emissions, possibly their last show ever. plz reunite.
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DrianIommi wrote:
listening to these bugs me because i missed the opurtunity to see them a few years ago,i was a knob
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CrustyMetalPunk wrote:
One of the best Sludge bands. "Dismal" is a near perfect album and it's name describes it perfectly; just dirty, dank, filthy fucking misanthropic music. And several members came from Disrupt, who are an all time favorite, so that's cool....yay for anarchist misanthropy =)
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BoT___ wrote:
This is a manly listening experience.
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news - GRIEF HAS DISBANDED - 7" record info & maryland death fest
1 Mar 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/officialgrief
HelloI'm sorry to announce that Grief is no longer playing.
We have dis-banded or whatever. The last show we played was
the Wien Arena in Vienna Austria (i think i spelled those
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news - GRIEF HAS DISBANDED - 7" record info & maryland death fest
1 Mar 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/officialgrief -
1 Mar 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/officialgrief
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