{"id":102444,"date":"2024-02-16T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102444"},"modified":"2024-02-23T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T10:48:13","slug":"album-review-threat-warped-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-threat-warped-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"THREAT – Warped Reality (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

THREAT
Warped Reality<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sofia, Bulgaria-based act Threat may struggle to make any headway within the thrash genre with such a dull and overused moniker. Even so, the debut full-length outing from this combo has its moments and is consistently fast and belligerent although it does lack identity.<\/p>\n

Like a lot of this sort of stuff it takes great influence from the classic German and US thrash scenes, so you\u2019ll hear flashes of Slayer<\/a>, Exodus, Destruction<\/a> etc., but if I may add, also an understated and raw British thrash feel. Guitarist Pablo D\u00edaz has a short shouty-style to his chops, an in your face assault that adds extra hostility to the songs, particularly my favourite trio of \u2018Path Of Evil\u2019, \u2018Bonecrusher\u2019 and \u2018Madhouse\u2019.<\/p>\n

The band isn\u2019t afraid to add melody too, such as on \u2018The Last Day\u2019 and \u2018Rush\u2019, but those speedier elements are never far away and remain throughout as you would hope from a thrash outing. Don\u2019t expect a record full of thrills but do expect and appreciate the glint it has in its eye as well as the aggression and energy on songs like \u2018Incineration\u2019.<\/p>\n

Warped Reality<\/em> is a solid thrash outing that grows on you with each listen and a good start for the Bulgarian posse.<\/p>\n

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

THREATWarped Reality Self-released (2024)Rating: 7\/10 Sofia, Bulgaria-based act Threat may struggle to make any headway within the thrash genre with such a dull and overused moniker. Even so, the debut full-length outing from this combo has its moments and is consistently fast and belligerent although it does lack identity. Like a lot of this sort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5583],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-threat-bulgaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444","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=102444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102445,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444\/revisions\/102445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}