{"id":101917,"date":"2023-11-06T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101917"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:49:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:49:28","slug":"ep-review-mangled-mangled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-mangled-mangled\/","title":{"rendered":"MANGLED &#8211; Mangled EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>MANGLED<br \/>Mangled 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: 8\/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\/11\/mangled_mangledep.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>Chile can do little wrong when it comes to gnarly old school death n\u2019 thrash. The band moniker is hardly original, but the musical mayhem this Santiago-based combo creates is enough to leave your brain as pulp.<\/p>\n<p>What you get bludgeoned by here is 29 minutes of music bolstered by some of the nastiest bass clanks you\u2019ll hear. The sound is raw, grim and punishing with each instrument, including the vocals, sounding primitive and underground. South American extreme metal exists in its own dismal domain, a place where walls are coated in bone powder and the eerie inhabitants spend most of their time cannibalising.<\/p>\n<p>If you want an evil sound then South America has always been a hotbed for organic and sinister noise. Take for instance the hideous thrashing death of \u2018Ritual Of Alchemy\u2019 or the clandestine horrors of \u2018Blood And Greed\u2019 with its ominous opening chords. This EP just revels in its own rotting waste, a primordial soup of fierce gnashing that dishes out the vile instrumental title track and culminates in the closing \u2018Imperio de Sangre\u2019, which begins in almost doomy fashion.<\/p>\n<p>However, the main theme of Mangled\u2019s debut EP is striking death-thrash that is malicious to its core and delivers a bass tone that literally sounds like the devilish hooves of the four horsemen of the apocalypse galloping up your driveway. Thank you Chile for once again serving up a tumultuous treat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANGLEDMangled EP Self-released (2023)Rating: 8\/10 Chile can do little wrong when it comes to gnarly old school death n\u2019 thrash. The band moniker is hardly original, but the musical mayhem this Santiago-based combo creates is enough to leave your brain as pulp. What you get bludgeoned by here is 29 minutes of music bolstered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-mangled-chile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101917","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=101917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101959,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101917\/revisions\/101959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}