Grave Generator

Combining the songcraft and aggression of metal with abrasive textures created solely using synthesizers, Grave Generator is the raving distillation of decades of audio experimentation by South Korea-based engineer, musician, and producer Nic Heidt. The project honors the genre’s heritage while challenging the conventions of it’s sounds and traditional instrumentation.

Grave Generator began with a question: Can you even create metal without guitars and bass? Not industrial, with its driving four on the floor beats and club-ready arrangements, but screeching, visceral, double-kick-laden metal suited to mosh pits? After finding a musical collaborator willing to hack through this aural jungle in Jonathan Ford of Dissociate, the answer, is hell-fucking-yes.

Freed from sonic limitations and conventions, Grave Generator explores tuning, timing, and tonal shifts that would be impossible if attempted by traditional metal projects. With his unique toolkit of synthesizers and software, Nic Heidt was able to amalgamate his myriad influences, which include everything from Nile and Testament to Prodigy and Stabbing Westward, into something both sonically arresting and violently intense.

Grave Generator is a love letter to metal, while intentionally destroying its foundational elements. It is the metallic synthesis of everything that makes you feel what you don’t want to.

Grave Generator’s debut EP, There Is No Peace Amongst The Stars is due March 20th on CD and digital via GIVE/TAKE.