{"title":"Grave Pleasures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinnish \"apocalyptic death-rock\" band, Grave Pleasures, formed in 2010 as Beastmilk. They changed their name to Grave Pleasures in March 2015. The current line-up includes Mat McNerney on vocals, Valtteri Arino on bass, Juho Vanhanen on lead guitar, Rainer Tuomikanto on drums and Aleksi Kiiskilä on guitars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a unique sound that combines elements of rock and metal with dark and haunting lyrics, Grave Pleasures has gained a dedicated following both in Finland and internationally. Their music is known for its powerful vocals and intense instrumentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince their formation, the band has released several critically acclaimed albums and toured extensively around the world. With their captivating live performances and thought-provoking lyrics, Grave Pleasures continues to push boundaries within the genre of \"apocalyptic death-rock\".\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"motherblood-4","title":"Motherblood","description":"\u003cp\u003eSvart Records proudly present the vinyl reissue of Grave Pleasures' modern classic album Motherblood  There are still those rare bands out there in the world that have a unique ability to combine macabre, mystifying rock with a more pop-oriented flare, a la early Bowie or early The Cure. Grave Pleasures are such a band that is equally suited for playing on a stadium stage, or in some Lynchian nightmare. It's that duality and electrifying contradiction that makes their music so exhilarating.  Lead guitarist Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu) steps up to write the majority of the songs together with British-born outcast Mat McNerney (Hexvessel, ex- Beastmilk\/DHG\/Code). His screaming telecaster and unique interplay of discord and harmony has become a trademark of the band's sound. Together with guitarist Aleksi Kiiskil? (ex - Kohu 63), their strings shimmer, hammer and howl out a web of sound which is distinctly Grave Pleasures. Fleshed out by the hypnotic signature rhythms of Valtteri Arino (ex- Beastmilk) on bass and Rainer Tuomikanto frenetically pounding the funeral drums (Ajattara, ex- Shining Swe), this group of well-established punks have started to reach up to their zenith on their sordid testament Motherblood.  Motherblood was recorded at Orgone Studios in the UK with Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Ulver, Paradise Lost) in March 2017 and originally released by Century Media on the same year. The studio was suitably situated on the site of an old WW2 coding bunker and brought with it the isolation of the bleak British countryside. The setting helped give the album an intense and smiling urgency that picks up where 80s UK bands such as Magazine, The Wire and Echo And The Bunnymen left off, but never stopping long enough to look back too much into the past. Featuring guest vocals from David Tibet from Current 93, the band sets the tone for their inspirations, from the esoteric underground of England's hidden reverse to Manchester's sound of misery. With their own metallic raw tone clashed with pop hooks, Motherblood is a furiously passionate and contemporary record, which re-defines post-punk as a \"war-cry for the eternally doomed.\"  They have been described as \"A post-punk wet dream,\" or perhaps more honestly as \"bat-shit lunatics,\" and their music is in a funereal world of its own. Motherblood is a truly danceable, pop-feast of raw, banging pleasure - in all its primitive, gothic tribalism. Dance-floor death rock that brings with it an uncanny sense of inspired song craft that made Bowie's Berlin era sound so fresh and revolutionary, Killing Joke's tribal anthems so desperately ominous and dark throbbing melancholy of Depeche Mode's atmospheric pop so damn sexy. Just about every part of this record bleeds menace, or emanates nuclear fumes. It's unsafe territory which in turn makes it thrilling, sexy and most dangerously of all, catchy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50380090933579,"sku":"2210936","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50380090769739,"sku":"2210924","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Motherblood_4010b46a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726206959"},{"product_id":"plagueboys","title":"Plagueboys","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are still those rare bands out there in the world that have a unique ability to combine macabre, mystifying rock with a more pop-oriented flare, a la early Bowie or early The Cure. Grave Pleasures are such a band that is equally suited for playing on a stadium stage, or in some Lynchian nightmare. It's that duality and electrifying contradiction that makes their music so exhilarating.   With their third studio album 'Plagueboys', GRAVE PLEASURES have now created their most sophisticated work of art in their career.  This is a bittersweet, danceable record, that shows a skillful balancing act between goth-\/death-rock and synth pop!   Available as 180g black LP (incl. 4pages LP-Booklet \u0026amp; Poster), ltd. CD Digipak and Digital Album!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Century Media","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50477368017227,"sku":"2011130","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50477368181067,"sku":"2011136","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_65f95d75_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727470905"},{"product_id":"doomsday-roadburn","title":"Doomsday Roadburn","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrave Pleasures release new live album, Doomsday Roadburn, from their atomic performance on the mainstage of Roadburn Festival 2018. Features songs from Beastmilk's Climax and their most successful album yet, Motherblood, including 2 unreleased tracks from the Motherblood recording sessions.Captured at their climactic and triumphant main stage show at Roadburn Festival, where they had the stoner crowd dancing in rapture like never before, Grave Pleasures have never sounded so alive. Doomsday Roadburn features a bludgeoning non-stop raw barrage of hits to a rapturous crowd. From songs hewn from their underground origins in their previous incarnation as Beastmilk, from the Climax record, and break-out hits from the album which stands as the jewel in their crown, the critically acclaimed Motherblood, the recording is a bottled tour de force of an explosive band on fire. Also including two previously unreleased songs which were left off the Motherblood recording sessions, Violence Of Night and There Are Powers At Work In This World, this album is a for any fan or newcomer who might be late to this apocalyptic party. Limited in pressing and beautifully packaged with exquisite artwork by Daniel Martin Diaz, and including a large booklet with beautiful monochrome photos from the show, this is the real deal and every bit as astute and artful as any release from the Grave Pleasures\/Beastmilk back-catalogue. Receive your dose of deathly joy and get high on this mushroom cloud.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50478222868811,"sku":"2017588","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_8ac5ec35_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727481661"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_56e2f922_thumbnail_4096_6c6dedd7-4252-4436-a449-8fbec0d60bc0.jpg?v=1726206933","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/grave-pleasures.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}