{"id":102395,"date":"2024-02-16T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102395"},"modified":"2024-02-16T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:02:26","slug":"album-review-pestilength-solar-clorex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-pestilength-solar-clorex\/","title":{"rendered":"PESTILENGTH – Solar Clorex (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

PESTILENGTH
Solar Clorex<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDebemur Morti Productions (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Basque Country duo Pestilength returns with their third full-length album. Solar Clorex<\/em> is another slab of horrifying deathliness, one which I enjoy musically but not vocally.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s often tough to review albums when there is one particular detail that doesn\u2019t sit comfortably with me, and in this instance it is the voice; a grating gurgling that sounds like a pig with phlegm and not necessarily fitting to what is a blackened, doomy clank of a platter. However, Solar Clorex<\/em> remains a potent opus that is a lot crisper and less suffocating than I imagined it would be. Even so, the album is riddled with dramatic dissonance such as on the stark \u2018Choirs Of None\u2019.<\/p>\n

I much prefer bands of this ilk when they shift out of their comfort zones and provide glinting, twisted passages of utmost doom. \u2018Dilution Haep\u2019 is a good example of that traipsing weirdness that Pestilength can inject into their already bleak landscape. I could quite easily prefer this album as an instrumental pasture because the trajectory of the music is so much more interesting without those generic throat spurts. \u2018Enthronos Wormwomb\u2019 is another of those lumbering heaps of gloomy menace that musically twists your membranes.<\/p>\n

At their most rampant, Pestilength produce songs like \u2018Occlusive\u2019, a black-death flurry of ear-melting percussion and blizzard riffs, so even with these two extremes the band still instils a sense of dread and foreboding. Solar Clorex<\/em> is still an almighty tome even with its flaws, although I\u2019m sure many will find much to savour from the growls.<\/p>\n

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

PESTILENGTHSolar Clorex Debemur Morti Productions (2024)Rating: 7.5\/10 Basque Country duo Pestilength returns with their third full-length album. Solar Clorex is another slab of horrifying deathliness, one which I enjoy musically but not vocally. It\u2019s often tough to review albums when there is one particular detail that doesn\u2019t sit comfortably with me, and in this instance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-pestilength"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102395","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=102395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102396,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102395\/revisions\/102396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}