Grima
Frostbitten


4.0
excellent

Review

by Sunnyvale STAFF
August 10th, 2022 | 28 replies


Release Date: 2022 | Tracklist

Review Summary: An enjoyable journey down a well-trodden path

With the band hailing from Siberia, Grima’s fifth album is appropriately named Frostbitten. If the title is a bit of an overused word to be bandied about in regards to black metal, even more fitting. This record doesn’t really aim to provide the listener with anything truly new, rather it simply packages an existing formula into a digestible and scrumptious serving. The album’s seven tracks convey standard atmospheric/melodic black metal tropes, from the inexorable tread of the nearly ten minute opener “Gloomy Heart Of The Coldest Land” to the melancholy folk of the petite closer “Mana”, but everything is sharp and, indeed, feels quite fresh. The vocals are strident and genuinely menacing, the riffs resound in the way they should, and the balance of elements is executed in a way which makes the album fly by. All in all, Frostbitten manages to capture the somber and melancholy, but simultaneously epic, mood which so many atmospheric black metal releases aspire to. It’s an excellent album which has earned plenty of spins from me during the height of summer, and I can only imagine how good it will sound when the snow is falling outside.



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Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
August 10th 2022


6175 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Very quick writeup for a great album which has flown under the radar.

Sharenge
August 10th 2022


5781 Comments


fuck me still never even got around to checking the last one

Sharenge
August 10th 2022


5781 Comments


files acquired - looks like I'll be changing that shortly.... then I'll do this one

Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
August 10th 2022


6175 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This one's better in my opinion, but both are worth checking, they scratch slightly different itches

Sharenge
August 10th 2022


5781 Comments


based on the covers, that one looks more autumnal and this one looks more wintery and everyone knows autumn gotta comes before winter

Divaman
August 10th 2022


16120 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Might check it. Sounds interesting.

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
August 10th 2022


32179 Comments


It's a good album, a bit bloated but it tries some stuff here and there and it's interesting.

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
August 10th 2022


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Wait I know these guys. Not personally of course.

TheNotrap
Staff Reviewer
August 10th 2022


19009 Comments


I've listened to it a couple of times and loved it. Sweet, short review ;)

Pho3nix
August 10th 2022


1681 Comments


I only recently found this band, gonna czech 'Will of the Primordial' before this

Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
August 10th 2022


6175 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks Notrap!

SteakByrnes
August 10th 2022


30382 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This album pretty good

MyColdShoulder
August 10th 2022


546 Comments


Nice review Sunny, liked what I heard of this so far

Also the album artwork is so sick

Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
August 10th 2022


6175 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks @MyColdShoulder!



Yeah, pretty sweet artwork.

WatchItExplode
August 11th 2022


10516 Comments


Love the single grapher. Fallen off a bit. The black in recent months but might be about time to change that

Ectier
August 12th 2022


2878 Comments


Thats a really cool album art, may check this out

Orb
August 12th 2022


9493 Comments


This review could be a copy/pasta template for like.. 100s of atmoblack albums.

Sunnyvale
Staff Reviewer
August 12th 2022


6175 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

@Orb, yeah, I think that's true. While I could've gone into more detail on some specific aspects, this is more of a review to draw some attention to this release.



This is one of those albums that is extremely well-executed and I'd recommend to anyone who likes this niche, but also I'm quite certain that it won't convert anyone who doesn't.

Purpl3Spartan
August 13th 2022


8992 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Will check

Purpl3Spartan
August 13th 2022


8992 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This is nice



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