{"id":100212,"date":"2023-05-26T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T23:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=100212"},"modified":"2023-06-05T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:44:21","slug":"album-review-graverape-horrors-of-life-eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-graverape-horrors-of-life-eternal\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAVERAPE &#8211; Horrors Of Life Eternal (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>GRAVERAPE<br \/>Horrors Of Life Eternal<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" height=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"title3\"><span style=\"color: #c80000;\">Caverape (2023)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/graverape_horrorsoflifeeternal.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Detroit, Michigan-based band with the chart-friendly moniker returns from the crypt for another dose of deadly death metal. In 2020 Graverape battered me senseless with their <em>Exhuming Decay<\/em> debut full-length, which was a brooding mix of 90s Swedish chainsaw nastiness but with doomier segments separated by melodious tinges. The same could be said for this latest effort too as the band unleashes further examples of fury and savagery.<\/p>\n<p>Opener \u2018Valley Of Red\u2019 begins in melancholic fashion but soon begins to salivate with its gnashing riffs, while \u2018Desecrated Kingdom\u2019 kicks in with an almost punky approach hinting at a d-beat stride married with a Dismember groove. And that\u2019s pretty much the theme throughout but with an extra slurp in the vocals of guitarist Jay Clifton.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the tracks do have a tendency to drag, although the longest cut, \u2018Twist Of The Knife\u2019, begins with such an ominous doom trudge before finally kicking in with that aggressive gallop. Elsewhere, numbers such as \u2018Serenity In Death\u2019 and \u2018For Their Flesh\u2019 follow rather formulaic Swedeath melodies, but the title track offers a fantastic buzzsaw catchiness.<\/p>\n<p><em>Horrors Of Life Eternal<\/em> is certainly a solid album, but not the bone shattering response I was expecting. A lot of bands are channeling the done-to-death Swedish influence and I\u2019m not of the opinion that Graverape are doing much that\u2019s any different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAVERAPEHorrors Of Life Eternal Caverape (2023)Rating: 7\/10 The Detroit, Michigan-based band with the chart-friendly moniker returns from the crypt for another dose of deadly death metal. In 2020 Graverape battered me senseless with their Exhuming Decay debut full-length, which was a brooding mix of 90s Swedish chainsaw nastiness but with doomier segments separated by melodious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-graverape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100213,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100212\/revisions\/100213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}