{"id":102350,"date":"2024-02-02T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102350"},"modified":"2024-02-12T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:42:06","slug":"ep-review-ghoul-noxious-concoctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-ghoul-noxious-concoctions\/","title":{"rendered":"GHOUL &#8211; Noxious Concoctions EP (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>GHOUL<br \/>Noxious Concoctions 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;\">Tankcrimes (2024)<\/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\/2024\/02\/ghoul_noxiousconcoctionsep.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>It\u2019s crazy to think that the last Ghoul album, <em>Dungeon Bastards<\/em>, emerged in 2016, so to an extent this EP just isn\u2019t enough. Even so, with <em>Noxious Concoctions<\/em> the death-thrash terrors have returned from the grave with a solid slab of salivating gore-soaked metal.<\/p>\n<p>These crazy California-based characters are the musical equivalent to watching a splatter movie; buckets of blood, a haul of murder weapons, demented killers but drippings of cheese and humour too. After a spooky intro \u2018The Eyes Of The Witch\u2019 chugs like a crusty Anthrax awash with a ripping death-thrash ethos that runs like a jagged spine throughout, even with the cover rendition of Funerot\u2019s \u20181-900-DTH-LINE\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Everything about the EP has that manic, fun-filled thrash excitement and energy where a crossover sensibility is never far away as gang chants fuse with scorching leads and the maniacal percussion of Fermentor. \u2018Ratlicker\u2019 chugs with such a mid-tempo groove, as does \u2018Shotgun Gulch\u2019, although frenzy is never far away on what is essentially a monster mash of maddening thrash. A new album can\u2019t come soon enough from these masked marauders of metal mayhem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GHOULNoxious Concoctions EP Tankcrimes (2024)Rating: 7.5\/10 It\u2019s crazy to think that the last Ghoul album, Dungeon Bastards, emerged in 2016, so to an extent this EP just isn\u2019t enough. Even so, with Noxious Concoctions the death-thrash terrors have returned from the grave with a solid slab of salivating gore-soaked metal. These crazy California-based characters are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-ghoul-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102350","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=102350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102352,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102350\/revisions\/102352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}