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Early Iteration

by GRIP

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    Released by Tomb Tree Tapes in a limited run of 25: "Soaked in feedback and cathartic screams, Philadephia’s GRIP have revealed themselves as a force to be reckoned with, as their brand of black-metal and experimental hardcore are a welcomed dance of styles. Released on Tomb Tree Tapes.”Early Iteration draws upon a mythic structure to deliver a multifaceted narrative addressing sacrifice, belief, and the evolution of an idea. The music acts as a violent vehicle, bleak and begrudging, running with the narrative, offering only occasional and misleading respite. It fires harsh and tangential melodies rapidly, rarely breaking sequence, dragging itself towards an inevitable, explosive end"

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1.
Entrance 07:23
Entrance Molded of clay and silt Stumbling on early, fragile limbs Departed the eggshells above Ground sands coated in a pale, weathering froth Crawling unto boundless, bounded earth Beneath the cover of harboring trees, the effigies lie Seeking refuge of thunderous cries, torrential assault, disrupting plates Confronted with hunger, lusting for life Quivering at the sound of predatory commands The howl of the primordial Laying claim to all through beseeching devourment They lay in leaf cover, bewildered and awed Memorizing each carnivorous motion Taught mud and lust, craving and conquering Behind they realize a child left to scavenge the Remnants of felled prey A weak spot, a point of entry They scoured along circular, entangled branches Barraging the beast from above, tearing at the adolescent sinews And tissues, constricted and pulsing The fed frenzied, rejuvenated and sound The elders realized mistake and returned to the consumed one Frantic they sniffed the retributed flesh from its jaws Crying, scathed, craving vengeance The pygmies awakened escaped within the depths of impenetrable caves Lurking, Waiting
2.
Pestilence 04:34
Pestilence Cowering in their earthen husk Feeding on fungus and disregarded remnants Avoiding the vengeful, wolven spirits seeking judgement Befalling to a greenish hue, purple the eyes, sullen and sunken Soured tongues, forced felt visions demanding revision Fevered, the sick seek solution Few exit their cavernous realm The remorseful absent, complacent through the sacrifice of estranged neighbors The fallen kill as they’ve killed once before, reinvigorated and confident First befell the immortal, then the pestilence And all may fall before us The healed return, bearing bountiful, healing flesh Pulled from the garden, disguised and hidden The sick rejoice, feeding and lusting, praising The word of the healers, laying claim to the words of the obscured The saved raise tributaries and icons Achievement worshiped, All for the glory of rebirth
3.
Garden 02:13
Instrumental
4.
Conception 11:39
Conception Multiplied, the healed want more, looking outwards and beyond The healers tell of a projected vessel imbued with accomplish, The proclaimed essence of the observer The congregate, preach and seek Begetting praise upon praise The concrete accomplishment of health and stasis Surely the observer bestowed challenge for the sake of redemption First the beast, then illness, bested by the becoming Ascending and becoming their fate, the destined favorite Amidst the congregation of the commended The woman, descendant of the first hunter, seeming lowly and haggard, Holds within her womb a fortune, the object of desire A bearing of divine prophecy, an announcement from the observer The healers call to the healed demanding accommodation for the emerging Calling for artifacts Calling for monuments Calling for shrines and dedication A hope for further ascension A being of divine knowledge The seer of all The sacred one, testament of the observer Sign of divine right
5.
Pyrosome: Configuration 1 The bequeathed born and aged to adulthood A head to the healed A being blessed and bound to success, bounty The beauty of grace instilled, with power, intuition, knowing A dream had of the path of ascension The followers must conquer and take in its name Demanding the formation of arms And statues bearing the likeness of the likened All craftsman called and sculptors united to complete the task All but one comply The defiant ones insists another path, Maddened by the falseness of the elected one’s ambition An example made, the sculptor thrown in the depths to toil, Contemplate and dream of their wrongs The drums of war roar, masking and echoing one’s howl of laments Formations of those hungering for excellence bewitched by ascension They spill out of the cave as if larva hatching from a carcass Scouting and hunting The uninitiated sought and found, they lay in their homes Unaware and naive The ascending scaled their alien walls, readying their sharpened spears screaming Offensive and proceeding they lunge into clay homes unexpecting
6.
Pyrosome: Configuration 2 Retaliation The astray erupt from threatened homes Roaring war horns of their own Flooding their roads with weapons of grand achievement Blood begins to make itself known Confronting the contending Rain cuts through the caked shells of blood and mud Frenzied, flying, limbs astray The offensive forced into turned backs The walls halt them, forcing a frantic climb Few escape, many skewered The retaliators reverse the tide Oozing from their main gate, calling forth the wrath and Remembrance of the vengeful beasts No lost rage for their kin They tear and snap as the estranged now chase The first of the fleeing return to their cave The bequeathed mistakenly inciting rejoice, Praising the swift victory of the blessed They responding wailing, warning of the doom to come Demanding descent of the precious and icons, salvage The rush for their belongings treading downward in deafening silence No screamed warnings, no scornful wailing, no offensive cries The prophet tells of a vision imbued with hope A lake hidden slightly below and a woman of divine ability submerged Capable of recovery and permanence For the observer spoke of the necessary purging of all but few The few are those chosen The chosen which shall prevail, ascended and eternal
7.
Lake (Lady of the Dancing Water) Grass in your hair stretched like a lion in the sun Restlessly turned moistened your mouth with your tongue. Pouring my wine in your eyes caged mine glowing Touching your face my fingers strayed knowing. I called you lady of the dancing water. Blown autumn leaves shed to the fire where you laid me Burn slow to ash just as my days now seem to be. I feel you still always your eyes glowing Remembered hours salt, earth and flowers flowing Farewell my lady of the dancing water.
8.
Sunken Head 06:38
Sunken Head The spirit commanded the digestion of concealed herbs Allowing again the consumption of deep dwelling sustenance Free of repeated pestilence and packed with regeneration The saved emerge from the water to be confronted by The echoes of war and retribution, wolves snarling, laughing tearfully The remaining scurry down deeper tunnels Upon deep descent where light dare not enter of its own accord, but Forced by torch, a quieted corpse, the remnants of the rebellious sculptor Beside him a form erected of damp, gathered clay A head exquisite and unfamiliar The sight drives the chosen one mad and uncertain The maddened one attempts to destroy the head And erase the final memory of the defiant one The molded awakened Speaking through its recent fractured The one born of conviction warned the remaining ones Of the tragic fate which is bound to the prophet’s preaching He tells the desperate of the healing herbs which bear an Unforeseen consequence Thou seemed saved bear the curse of eternity, Self-regeneration, internally evolving anew But thou so soon to follow, so wanting to ascend beyond The limits instilled by the observer Are rendered barren, devoid of fertility and incapable of creation And perpetuation
9.
Judgement 07:14
Judgement The prophet smashes the livened head Shattering the informer into a cloud of fragments Accompanying the devastation, a sudden strike Deafening thunder explores every crevice of the cave and The entrance blocked by the hailing boulders The intruders halted And the surviving imprisoned The preaching scours for order telling the audience of the Falseness of the head’s claims Crying of the newest prophecy An answer, a means of conjuring the observer The remaining left with little option Following still as if shackled Lead ever further into abyssal depths A lifetime of wandering, yet no age Nothing but the prospect of ascension All that remains visible in the darkness is reflection A reminder of self and the actions of past All for survival, so it seemed A dense, pulsing resonance coerces a unified thought among the remaining A thought so brilliant the depths exposed and the survivors shown A voice escalates the brilliance to ignition Profound and incinerating, realization seen

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Early Iteration draws upon a mythic structure to deliver a multifaceted narrative addressing sacrifice, belief, and the evolution of an idea. The music acts as a violent vehicle, bleak and begrudging, running with the narrative, offering only occasional and misleading respite. It fires harsh and tangential melodies rapidly, rarely breaking sequence, dragging itself towards an inevitable, explosive end.

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released April 8, 2019

Alex-Guitars,Vocals and Drum Programming
Dan-Bass and Drum Programming

Recorded between 2016 and 2019 in Philadelphia, PA and Chicago, IL
Recorded/Mixed/Mastered by Alex McGady and Eric Mayer

Artwork by Alex McGady

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GRIP Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

GRIP is a heavy post-hardcore band from Philadelphia, PA that formed in 2014. The current line up is Alex on guitar, vocals, drum programming and art direction, and Dan on bass and drum programming.

Press: "harsh melodies, sheer abrasiveness and cross-genre twists delivered through the prism of tasteful metallic influences."- Idioteq

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