{"id":101966,"date":"2023-11-17T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101966"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T12:33:04","slug":"album-review-ceremonial-bloodbath-genesis-of-malignant-entropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-ceremonial-bloodbath-genesis-of-malignant-entropy\/","title":{"rendered":"CEREMONIAL BLOODBATH – Genesis Of Malignant Entropy (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CEREMONIAL BLOODBATH
Genesis Of Malignant Entropy<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSentient Ruin Laboratories (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Genesis Of Malignant Entropy<\/em> is the second full-length album from Canadian destroyers Ceremonial Bloodbath and is the ideal accompaniment for a descent into the coldest and blackest abyss. You need to be in the mood for such a devastating portrayal of crushing black-death because this comes as a series of hellish blasts that blow ice and ash through subterranean crypts.<\/p>\n

The band did more than rattle the bones with their 2020 debut The Tides Of Blood<\/em>, and just to cement their place in your pulverised brain they continue with their brand of raw, abyssal energy. There are traces of bestial war metal, sprigs of dank doom and primitive sneers of black metal, but whichever gloomy path is trodden, the atmosphere remains foreboding and above all unforgiving.<\/p>\n

Opening track \u2018Exhumation Of The Ominous\u2019 is a thunder train and is utterly ferocious, despicable and blinding in its hammering as the band volleys off numerous violent riffs, grisly percussive snaps and the sort of blackened billowing hate that the likes of Beherit, Blasphemy and Conqueror made their own. It\u2019s not pretty and deep breaths are required in between tracks; \u2018Bloodlust Raids Of Vengeance\u2019, \u2018Loathing Swarm\u2019 and \u2018Dissonance Of Morbidity\u2019 drip with a satanic humidity so primeval that to fully appreciate and absorb such grotesque spectacles one must throw themselves down a manhole and spend several weeks in a sewer among the rats and scum.<\/p>\n

Violent blasts of Bestial Warlust integrate with fizzes of Proclamation, but there is something extra and far more horrific that lurks here, the result being the nightmarish brood that is \u2018Caustic Invocation\u2019 that stinks of sick fumes while boasting billowing angles of twisted horror. Elsewhere, \u2018The Boneless One\u2019 is melodious in its malformed morbidity as the guitars squirm like feverish parasites through body soil.<\/p>\n

Utmost formidable horror is ever-present here for what is one of the year\u2019s most potent affairs \u2013 an album not for the faint of heart or mind.<\/p>\n

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

CEREMONIAL BLOODBATHGenesis Of Malignant Entropy Sentient Ruin Laboratories (2023)Rating: 8.5\/10 Genesis Of Malignant Entropy is the second full-length album from Canadian destroyers Ceremonial Bloodbath and is the ideal accompaniment for a descent into the coldest and blackest abyss. You need to be in the mood for such a devastating portrayal of crushing black-death because this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-ceremonial-bloodbath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101966","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=101966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101967,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101966\/revisions\/101967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}