{"id":100236,"date":"2023-05-19T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=100236"},"modified":"2023-06-08T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:32:38","slug":"album-review-doomcreeper-cryptic-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-doomcreeper-cryptic-death\/","title":{"rendered":"DOOMCREEPER – Cryptic Death (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DOOMCREEPER
Cryptic Death<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Long Island, New York is the setting for this short but effective death metal debut full-length from Doomcreeper. This album is a somewhat no frills affair that has a feel of, say, 1993 about it. Deep, guttural vocals and some deadly chugging keep this opus flowing like molten lava pits eating a village.<\/p>\n

Melodious leads and fast paced passages; sure, it\u2019s not exactly murky or unorthodox, but Doomcreeper stick to what they know best and churn out a batch of infectiously heavy songs starting with the bellowing \u2018In Their Blood\u2026\u2019, with its tempo changes, right through to the trudging and ominous \u2018Hidden Being\u2019.<\/p>\n

The instruments are clear, and yet there remains a truly guttural and ghoulish delight to this platter. Forget fancy aesthetics, Doomcreeper exists to drag then pummel, and yet within its folds you find a sprig of surprises, such as the driving technical awareness of \u2018Algol\u2019 to the melodious grind of \u2018Onslaught\u2019.<\/p>\n

Consistency and focus is key here on this debut, and although at times a touch reserved Cryptic Death<\/em> shows the potential and talent of the individuals concerned.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DOOMCREEPERCryptic Death Self-released (2023)Rating: 7\/10 Long Island, New York is the setting for this short but effective death metal debut full-length from Doomcreeper. This album is a somewhat no frills affair that has a feel of, say, 1993 about it. Deep, guttural vocals and some deadly chugging keep this opus flowing like molten lava pits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-doomcreeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100236","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=100236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100237,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100236\/revisions\/100237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}