Grave with a View - Raw Illumination CD

Following on from last year’s bleak and disconsolate Wounds single, Finland’s purveyors of ‘Anti-Life Black Metal Misery’, Grave With A View, have returned with their most powerful and harrowing release to date – Raw Illumination. A full length album steeped in isolation, violence, self destruction and death, Raw Illumination is not an album for the faint of heart or the fragile of spirit. Recorded and mixed by O.H.R and mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Dopelord, Christ Agony etc), Raw Illumination is the sonic distillation of caustic chaos and grim, unmitigated despair – every malicious note cutting straight to the bone – and its aura of desperate degradation has been perfectly captured in the cover imagery; the artwork and layout by Danny The Destroyer, utilising powerful, unsettling images of model Anna Iivana Julma, captured by the band. When it crawls from the crypts of label Dusktone on November 29th, Raw Illumination will hunt down the broken and the flawed, the outcasts and the lepers and swallow them into its maw of ice and pain.