Grave Pleasures

Grave Pleasures
Origin Helsinki, Finland
Genres Post-punk, gothic rock, deathrock
Years active 2010 – present
Labels Columbia, Metal Blade, Svart, Magic Bullet
Website Official website
Members Mat McNerney
Valtteri Arino
Linnea Olsson
Juho Vanhanen
Uno Bruniusson
Past members Johan Snell
Paile

Grave Pleasures is a rock band from Finland. Formed in 2010, Grave Pleasure's previous incarnation, Beastmilk, released a demo followed by an EP, and later debut full-length Climax. Members Mat McNerney and Valtteri Arino continued the band in 2015 as Grave Pleasures, following Johan Snell and Paile's departure with the group. With new members, Grave Pleasures released Dreamcrash months later.

History

Formation as Beastmilk

Beastmilk was founded in 2010 by Mat McNerney, Johan Snell, Valtteri Arino and Paile in Helsinki, Finland. The band name came out of Snell's interest in liquids and how it affects society.[1][2] The band later self-released a demo, White Stains on Black Tape, in the same year. The demo was well received including from musicians Fenriz of Darkthrone and Nate Newton of Converge.[1]

On April 2, 2012, Beastmilk released an EP Use Your Deluge under Finnish label Svart Records. On June 2013, the band went to Salem, Massachusetts to record their debut full-length Climax, with Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou at his own recording studio GodCity Studio. Climax was released on November 29, 2013 under the Magic Bullet Records label.

Name change with new lineup

Following the positive reception of Climax, Sony was interested in offering Beastmilk to join the label under Columbia Records. At the time of the offer, there were tensions between Snell and the rest of Beastmilk. Former The Oath guitarist Linnea Olsson joined Beastmilk during this straining period. In 2015, both Snell and Paile left the group, leaving McNerney and Arino the original members of the band. McNerney would later change the band name to Grave Pleasures. The band recruited former In Solitude member Uno Bruniusson on drums and Oranssi Pazuzu's Juho Vanhanen as session guitarist.[3] Mainly as a four piece, Grave Pleasures recorded Dreamcrash in May 2015 with producer Tom Dalgety. Dreamcrash released on September 4, 2015 in Finland, Germany, Switzerland and Austria and October 2 in the United Kingdom and France by Columbia. Metal Blade Records handled the North American release of Dreamcrash for its November 13, 2015 release.

Members

Past members

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 "Beastmilk interview (Goatspeed)". Rocking.gr. 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2015-11-11. External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. ↑ "BEASTMILK: GENOCIDAL CRUSH". Noisey. 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2015-11-11. External link in |publisher= (help)
  3. ↑ "HOW BEASTMILK BECAME GRAVE PLEASURES BEFORE THE 'DREAMCRASH'". Noisey. 2013-10-18. Retrieved 2015-11-11. External link in |publisher= (help)

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