{"id":101648,"date":"2023-09-15T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101648"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:37:39","slug":"album-review-mortuary-ghoul-friends-with-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-mortuary-ghoul-friends-with-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"MORTUARY GHOUL – Friends With The Dead (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MORTUARY GHOUL
Friends With The Dead<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDismal Fate (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I hope many of you heard, and hopefully purchased, Mortuary Ghoul\u2019s Corpse Exhumation<\/em><\/a> EP which emerged last year. It was a taster for what squalid expressions were to come, and Friends With The Dead<\/em>, the debut full-length length from this Ohio act, does not disappoint.<\/p>\n

As soon as \u2018Day Of Horror\u2019 comes grinding in one cannot ignore the obvious Mortician influence as those congealed riffs trudge through manure like a pitchfork-wielding maniacal farmer. If you delighted in but didn\u2019t understand the cover art, it\u2019s a homage to cult 70s movie Deranged<\/em> which took inspiration from the real life crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein.<\/p>\n

The traipsing sound of this album successfully relays the murkiness of the 70s horror genre as \u2018Mummified Ma\u2019 grinds and gnashes like a failing furnace torching its last victim. Heavy, sleazy and putrid, this album rarely steps out of its comfort zone of doom-grind. Littered with film samples \u2013 which I\u2019m a sucker for \u2013 tracks such as \u2018Obituary Indication\u2019, \u2018Gore D\u00e9cor\u2019, \u2018Fatal Reminder\u2019 and closer \u2018Deranged\u2019 fuse repulsive blasts with fetid sludge, and only occasionally will such slithering compost flicker with a spasm suggesting a shift of pace.<\/p>\n

Of the ten tracks on offer it is the brief slop of \u2018Farmhouse Decay\u2019 and the pounding title track which really get me going, but the whole sorry mess is a mass of rotten flesh swarming with flies. No, it\u2019s not original but it sure as hell makes me want to raid my VHS shelves and binge on some 70s rot.<\/p>\n

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

MORTUARY GHOULFriends With The Dead Dismal Fate (2023)Rating: 8\/10 I hope many of you heard, and hopefully purchased, Mortuary Ghoul\u2019s Corpse Exhumation EP which emerged last year. It was a taster for what squalid expressions were to come, and Friends With The Dead, the debut full-length length from this Ohio act, does not disappoint. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-mortuary-ghoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101648","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=101648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101649,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101648\/revisions\/101649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}