{"id":100882,"date":"2023-06-01T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=100882"},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:23:05","slug":"album-review-karabiner-unbeaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-karabiner-unbeaten\/","title":{"rendered":"KARABINER – Unbeaten (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

KARABINER
Unbeaten<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Considering the troubles in their native country, it\u2019s only natural that this debut full-length offering from Ukrainian act Karabiner should sound somewhat retaliatory.<\/p>\n

Formed in 2019 out of Kyiv, Karabiner \u2013 who feature Leo \u201cSkullmiller\u201d Palahniuk (vocals and guitar), George \u201cTodbringer\u201d Reshetov (bass) and Ivan \u201cK1800\u201d Kalytenko (drums) \u2013 construct quite an angry racket of no nonsense thrash metal full of spit and speed that\u2019s not a million miles away from classic Kreator. The sneering dry vocals, rattling bass, scathing axe work and rampant production of \u2018Thrashooter\u2019 is indicative of the Teutonic fury, as is the lethal \u2018Counteroffensive\u2019 which brings classic Slayer<\/a> into the equation too.<\/p>\n

Apart from the instrumental introduction and the track \u2018Freedom Is Not Free\u2019 (written in memory of Activated bassist Dmytro Liubak, who was killed on the battlefront in March 2023), the album is extremely hyper and frantic\u2026 and it works. The axe work on \u2018Centuries Of Genocide\u2019 just rips, the same goes for the furious \u2018Dark City\u2019, and yet closer \u2018Vintage Metal\u2019 is downright odd; a straight up mid-tempo warbler (musically and vocally) that seems wildly out of place. That aside, Unbeaten<\/em> remains vicious, angry and dripping with spite and venom, something lacking in a lot of current thrash. Ukraine wasn\u2019t known for its thrash\u2026 it is now.<\/p>\n

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

KARABINERUnbeaten Self-released (2023)Rating: 8\/10 Considering the troubles in their native country, it\u2019s only natural that this debut full-length offering from Ukrainian act Karabiner should sound somewhat retaliatory. Formed in 2019 out of Kyiv, Karabiner \u2013 who feature Leo \u201cSkullmiller\u201d Palahniuk (vocals and guitar), George \u201cTodbringer\u201d Reshetov (bass) and Ivan \u201cK1800\u201d Kalytenko (drums) \u2013 construct quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-karabiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100882","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=100882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101107,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100882\/revisions\/101107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}