{"id":650388,"date":"2026-10-18T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/650388\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:16:10","slug":"to-the-grave-liberation-front-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/650388\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Grave – Liberation Front Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cSubtle\u201d is not a word that comes up very often when discussing deathcore. To a greater or lesser extent, roughly proportionate to the volume of brutality and rage it borrows from its respective parents and beyond, it\u2019s a genre defined by its bluntness. It\u2019s thus unsurprising, yet satisfying, to see To the Grave continue to use the medium to channel their unapologetic vitriol for humanity\u2019s mass torturing and murdering of non-human animals. It\u2019s unignorable, and has only gotten angrier and more violent. The artwork follows the same trajectory: after a gory but tongue-in-cheek break on Everyone\u2019s A Murderer, Liberation Front picks right back up where Director\u2019s Cuts left off\u2014a slaughterhouse wheelbarrow of heads, real gore now front and centre and yet still a negligible fraction compared to what we don\u2019t see. Their fifth LP, it\u2019s To the Grave\u2019s most misanthropic and appropriately visceral work to date, all grounded in the true horrors of human cruelty.<\/p>\n

Liberation Front is punishing in every sense. To the Grave have accelerated their drift into the chonkier, uglier side of deathcore, and it makes for a natural conduit for their now depleted patience. The groove that once propped up anthemic choruses now more often feels like a beating than a bounce: clubbing you into submission with vile breakdowns, shaking you up with grindy blasts, slicing into you with particularly acerbic, rhythmically-delivered lyrics. The driving force of the music is its nihilistic rage, borne out in its crushing relentlessness of beating rhythms and refrains roared in your face. Humanity\u2019s time is up, and the only redemption comes in a bloodbath; as opener \u201cMEAT THE HUMANS\u201d puts it, \u201cCan\u2019t make you care\/\/can\u2019t make you fucking get it.\/\/But I can make sure you don\u2019t make it.\u201d Even the track titles being in all-caps, though a tad played-out, indicates the raw fury. The group have selected the bluntest, heaviest weapons to inflict as much damage as possible, doing away with any mincing of words in favour of making mincemeat out of their listeners; the result is an unfiltered but thoroughly enjoyable bloodbath.<\/p>\n

To the Grave have successfully distilled their righteous anger into aural form, and it sounds fantastic (and horrifying). Churning syncopation (\u201cMEAT THE HUMANS,\u201d \u201cTHE WORLD IS A SLAUGHTERHOUSE.\u201d) and straightforwardly headbangable or otherwise madly infectious grooves (\u201cNAIL MARY,\u201d \u201cYOU KNOW THE DRILL,\u201d \u201cLIFE AMONG THE SEPTICS\u201d) make for more hooks than an industrial slaughterhouse, while sudden bursts of urgent melody inject you with a shot of adrenaline or dread at just the right moments (\u201cCALF SLICER,\u201d \u201cLIMB FROM LAMB\u201d). Possibly, all are happening at once, as in my personal favourite \u201cYOU KNOW THE DRILL,\u201d which went straight to my Heavy Moves Heavy and SOTY playlists without a second thought. Dane Evans\u2019 vocals have made leaps and bounds even since EaM, and his fluctuations between gut-twisting gutturals and roars are themselves compelling enough, without the addition of blood-curdling shrieks (\u201cEYESTALK ABLATIONS,\u201d \u201cCALF SLICER\u201d, \u201cLIMB FROM LAMB\u201d) and group roars or screams to hammer home some stupidly catchy line (\u201cMEAT THE HUMANS,\u201d \u201cNAIL MARY,\u201d \u201cTORTURE PORN,\u201d \u201cYOU KNOW THE DRILL\u201d). And whilst being a fun listen, To the Grave keep the real horror underlying everything close to the surface\u2014take the distorted scream at the end of \u201cCALF SLICER\u201d that takes the notion of \u201cdeathcore pig squeals\u201d to a totally new level, and the sample that dominates \u201cTERRORFIRE.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I love Liberation Front, but I\u2019ll concede that a sympathy with the cause helps a lot. Being in the position I am, the music\u2014lyrics included\u2014is cathartic, and the unadulterated meanness and nihilism feel like a release. Mileage may vary, therefore, for non-vegans whose sensibilities might cause the above to sit awkwardly, even though I don\u2019t fault To the Grave for loudly standing up for the animals and exorcising their demons. Ideological points aside, I can fault Liberation Front for its mix, which, while appropriately crushed for the slammier, more br00tal aspect of the sound, doesn\u2019t allow one to properly appreciate those elements of atmosphere and melody, however brief. I\u2019m also not sold by the sudden and short-lived veer into a hardcore shout on \u201cTHE WORLD IS A SLAUGHTERHOUSE.\u201d Finally, the skew of melodicism towards the back end feels a bit odd, even if designed to illustrate the growing visibility of the pain and sorrow for the victims underneath the vitriol.<\/p>\n

To the Grave haven\u2019t broken uncharted musical ground, but their musical and conceptual no-holds-barred approach is insidiously easy to get behind. Liberation Front is a jolt of passion and inexorable punch, and it\u2019s the furious voice of a chainsaw-wielding (anti-)hero that your gym session\u2014and importantly the animals\u2014definitely need.<\/p>\n

Rating: Very Good
DR: Probably not very high | Format Reviewed: Stream from your local slaughterhouse
Label: BLKIIBLK<\/a>
Websites: Official<\/a> | Facebook<\/a>
Releases Worldwide: October 2nd, 2026<\/p>\n

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