{"id":101125,"date":"2023-07-14T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101125"},"modified":"2023-08-01T11:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:05:49","slug":"ep-review-disengagement-formless-in-a-violent-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-disengagement-formless-in-a-violent-world\/","title":{"rendered":"DISENGAGEMENT – Formless In A Violent World EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DISENGAGEMENT
Formless In A Violent World EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDry Cough (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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According to the ever brilliantly prolific Dry Cough Records press release, new death metal act Disengagement hails from \u201cvarious points between Liverpool and Manchester\u201d as well as claiming that the band \u201chave arrived with something a little different\u201d, before asking \u201cwhen was the last time you heard a death metal band play in E-standard?\u201d The press release rounds off by stating: \u201cExpect no cavernous sound, technical sections or blast beats here, just four punishing tracks of ripping death metal\u201d.<\/p>\n

The label couldn\u2019t have put it any better because this debut EP, dressed up like some early 90s demo, comes at you like a rabid beast but still has time to entice you into its lair with tasty, melodious leads. Slower segments chug with a foul menace as the band combs the filthy shores of first wave death metal, a place once inhabited by Sepultura and Obituary as opener \u2018Black Hole Horizon\u2019 proves.<\/p>\n

Disengagement appears quite straight laced on the surface, but within the folds there is a little more going on as those Hellhammer \/ Celtic Frost sprigs are mixed in with dollops of Finnish aplomb. It\u2019s catchy but fierce, and yet delivered from an underground stance as \u2018Permafrost\u2019 traipses like Celtic Frost at their most ghoulish.<\/p>\n

\u2018Deathdealer\u2019 is far pacier and raw yet still finds time to dip into that murky abyss of grim slogging. Meanwhile, the closing title track continues the sluggish trudge and comes riddled with a deathly doominess that suffocates the soul as the leads squirm to escape the black mass of consuming silt while the percussion labours like a morose, tolling churchyard bell. The pace eventually quickens to an Autopsy-styled rant led by slurping vocals before resorting back to that dirty trudge.<\/p>\n

Ripping death metal it most certainly is but with more silted layers to contend with and it remains just as putrid as a majority of bands out there. A full-length album cannot come soon enough for me.<\/p>\n

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

DISENGAGEMENTFormless In A Violent World EP Dry Cough (2023)Rating: 8.5\/10 According to the ever brilliantly prolific Dry Cough Records press release, new death metal act Disengagement hails from \u201cvarious points between Liverpool and Manchester\u201d as well as claiming that the band \u201chave arrived with something a little different\u201d, before asking \u201cwhen was the last time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-disengagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101125","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=101125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101127,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101125\/revisions\/101127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}