GRIEVING “Songs For The Weary” LP (angle dust)

REVIEWS:
Catchy song, definitely in a heavy rock vein, but with an undercurrent of more extreme fare in its tones, and yeah, dig a little bit and you’ll find that Polish trio Grieving, who are set to make their debut through Interstellar Smoke Records and Godz ov War Productions in July with Songs for the Weary — have played together in various combinations and in various other outfits like Mentor or Thaw or others in a more charred aesthetic, black metal, thrash, and so on. Vocalist Wojciech Kaluza, in addition to doubling as King of Nothing in Mentor is also known as Susel in long-running Polish Southern metal outfit J.D. Overdrive, and you can hear some of that too. But Grieving have their own approach, as “A Crow Funeral” demonstrates, and it reminds how fluid the line between what’s “metal” and what’s not can be when put on a foundation of solid songwriting.

Grieving to Release Debut Album Songs for the Weary in July

The Polish stoner doom scene is stronger than ever filled with heavy sounds, cosmic trips, psychedelic vibes, and a sludgy attitude. With tons of new bands, projects, songs, albums, even labels Poland is riff-filled land. Yet with only a few prophets Candlemass-like epicness (Monasterium, Evangelist) classic doom metal is almost absent here. Composed of 3 of 4 members of black metal/hardcore monster Mentor and scene veterans Artur Ruminski, Wojciech Kałuża, Bartomiej Lichołap, Grieving is filling a niche debuting with the heavy-sounded album “Songs for the Wear”. With overwhelming a sense of finality, old school melodies, Sabbath-worshipping riffs, and lovecraftian darkness and doomy sadness they are reminding us that we are doomed. …and of course, there are crosses and churches.
~GRUBY (DOOMSMOKER)
DoomCharts 07/2021 No.4

Doom Charts – July 2021

LINE-UP:
Artur Ruminski – guitars/bass/synth
Bartosz Licholap – drums
Wojciech Kaluza – vocals

Tracklist:
1. Crippled by the Weight of Powerlessness
2. This Godless Chapel
3. A Crow Funeral
4. Foreboding of a Great Ruin
5. Witch Hunt Eternal
6. Lucifer Wept