After four years of band history, line-up-changes and more and more stage experiences, GROM OTORIC from Southern Germany release here their debut album No Change Without Revolution. The sound is very good, if you look at the fact, that the CD was recorded in a home studio, and emphasizes the musical style of the band at its best: it’s all very dry, but without loosing pressure and heaviness – you can listen to each detail.
Although the arrangements are too harmless to be called progressive music, the band creates here really an own style, that is made for at least every metal fan: The vocals seem to be similar to those of Lemmy, leads a la Metallica (I mean earlier Metallica, Kirk Hammet solos, etc.), thrash metal and hard rock riffs, that are played in mid-tempo and the much slowly melodies, full of doom-harmonies.
The bass is most in the background, but shows also virtuosity. I think the drummer could play more as he plays here: very monotone and simple. The lyrics are really a problem here. GROM OTORIC is anti-US, but the text is too trashy and polemic.
At the end: too melodic to be Thrash, too heavy to be only Rock, too boring to be Progressive – a very good album with a beautiful (white!) booklet, pro-printed CDR (!).
You can order it for 8 Euros, P&P incl.: GROM OTORIC, Severinstr. 1a, 83026 Rosenheim, Germany)