GRAVEN IMAGE - studio sessions 82 - 83 LP Grindcore The group would use restrained

The group would use restrained improvisational techniques similar to Gruppo Nuova Consonanza

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Still Holding On channels hardcore paradigms like Straight Ahead and Floorpunch while exploring a wider range of influences including but not limited to acts such as Inside Out and Free

and while many of the elements that we recognize on Yodh and Cairn are present here it's fascinating to hear the foundation for those sounds in a very raw fashion

GRAVEN IMAGE - studio sessions 82 - 83 LP Grindcore The group would use restrainedIn the summer of 1982, an already burgeoning scene in Richmond, VA, saw the arrival of some new blood in the form of Graven Image. Having shared the stage with a veritable who's who of punk at the time (Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Necros, C. O. C., Void, The FU's, etc.) throughout the Mid Atlantic, the band's explosive live performance, fronted by the powerful and charismatic Dwayne Curd, was evidence that they could hold their own when billed with the