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Artist......: Death Racer
Album.......: From Gravel to Grave
Year........: 2024
Genre.......: Thrash Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Dying Victims Productions
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (24bit)
Quality.....: 2890kbps / 96 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 8 tracks
Playtime....: 00:35:13
Size........: 729.3 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-07-15
S.Date......: 2024-07-26
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ije4dcv56k2qb
01. Motormentor 5:05
02. Nordschleife 3:32
03. Inverted Crossroads 4:23
04. C.f.s.o.d.c. 4:10
05. Imola 94 (From Gravel to Grave) 4:26
06. Racers of Death 3:29
07. Traumatized in Traffic Jam Ejection 4:11
08. S.M. Death Worship 5:58
Hailing from Austria, DEATH RACER are nothing if not
thorough. See, the idea for the band was born years ago
while philosophizing during listening to Razor's
"Deathrace." From there, a wellspring of inspiration
followed - and the race was on!
DEATH RACER's debut demo, released in 2020, was
appropriately titled Qualifying. Musically, their most
important influence, maybe - rawness,
straightforwardness, DRIVE - are the same qualities a
racecar driver must possess. Without zero fucks given
and a will to make devilish sacrifices at times, you
were never able to hit the final laps back in the
dangerous days of motorsports; a certain backwardness
and nostalgia for those days is the most important
ingredient overall for DEATH RACER. In their mind,
post-apocalyptic / dystopian movies - with their
totalitarian atmosphere and hostile approach against all
life - are mirroring in perfect symbolism that of
relentless racing.
And so they race forward, more relentless than ever,
with their long-awaited debut album, From Gravel to
Grave. Also perfectly titled, From Gravel to Grave
presents DEATH RACER as an all-pistons-pumping runaway
racecar, chassis gleaming but torched black with exhaust
underneath, its very construction pushing the outer
limits of safety before all the screws fall loose and a
fiery wreck ensues. For sure, it's not difficult to spot
the Austrians' influences, and they wouldn't have it any
other way - they are transparent as they are thorough,
to circle back to the earliest point - so therefore,
there's the obligatory "High Speed Metal" of classic
Razor as well as the comparable grit & grime of equally
old, raw metal like earliest Slayer, Exciter, Bathory,
Hungary's Tormentor, Bulldozer, true-metal Darkthrone,
cult NWOBHM, Violent Force, and of course, erudite
Teutonic thrash.
Still, it's how DEATH RACER revs this noble engine that
matters most, not how familiar it is (because what ISN'T
familiar now?!), and they sneak some nitrous into that
engine in the form of hardcore punk attitude and
otherworldly black metal atmosphere as well as some
touches of chorused guitar from old deathrock. But
again, From Gravel to Grave is thorough as it is
(filthy) fun, so its lyrics deal with true incidents /
accidents on the world's most demanding and terrifying
racetracks ("Nordschleife," "Imola '94") as well as the
terrors of "real life" inspired by newspaper articles
("C.F.S.O.D.C") or just plain fantasy ("Motormentor,"
"S.M. Death Worship") and daily struggles ("Inverted
Crossroads," "Traumatized in Traffic Jam Ejection"). All
told, filth and fury and FUN. DEATH RACER is at the
wheel, and you're going From Gravel to Grave at 666 mph!