{"id":101394,"date":"2023-05-27T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101394"},"modified":"2023-08-31T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T12:37:58","slug":"ep-review-swamptales-i-am-the-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-swamptales-i-am-the-death\/","title":{"rendered":"SWAMPTALES &#8211; I Am The Death EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>SWAMPTALES<br \/>I Am The Death EP<\/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;\">Self-released (2023)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 7.5\/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\/08\/swamptales_iamthedeathep.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>Quite clearly the bass player JD Rodiguez is plucking an extracted spinal column for the duration of this debut outing. Around him, fellow lunatics Rafael Vivas (vocals), Briam Moreno (guitar) and Damn Fretus (drums) gargle blood, bash skulls and rip entrails for what is a sleaze-ridden heap of death metal savagery.<\/p>\n<p>You can guarantee that with any release out of South America there will be a primitive brutality, a rawness and a general stench of underground fumes. Colombia\u2019s SwampTales rattle off a cluster of belligerent tracks drenched in that archetypal evil and wickedness. Their repertoire of ghoulish grinding takes form in hideous outbursts such as \u2018Nightmare\u2019 with its menacing intro, the clanking gallop of \u2018Doomed\u2019 and that hideous title track with its initial gore soaked ooze.<\/p>\n<p><em>I Am The Death<\/em> spews up 27 minutes of feisty tunes which exude a filthy and formidable menace and aggression\u2026 so why go elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWAMPTALESI Am The Death EP Self-released (2023)Rating: 7.5\/10 Quite clearly the bass player JD Rodiguez is plucking an extracted spinal column for the duration of this debut outing. Around him, fellow lunatics Rafael Vivas (vocals), Briam Moreno (guitar) and Damn Fretus (drums) gargle blood, bash skulls and rip entrails for what is a sleaze-ridden heap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-swamptales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101394","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=101394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101396,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101394\/revisions\/101396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}