A Certain Taste

 Album Review  Artist: Grave Pilgrim Title: The Pungent Wine of Pride Release Date: 29/05/2026 Label; Death Prayer Records  Score: 8/10  Nietzsche did not write manifestos. He wrote provocations — ideas sharp enough to draw blood from the person holding them, designed not to comfort but to destabilise, to force the reader into a reckoning with their own smallness or, more dangerously, their own potential. The Oregon duo Grave Pilgrim understand this. The Pungent Wine of Pride is their second full-length and the second movement in an unfolding conceptual trilogy built around the three metamorphoses of the spirit from Thus Spoke Zarathustra — and where its predecessor The Bigotry of Purpose mapped the Camel, the beast of burden that kneels and loads itself with obligation, this record belongs entirely to the Lion: the will that seizes its own desert, the defiant refusal of every yoke that others have named virtue. That is, it turns out, a very good conce...