{"id":102466,"date":"2024-02-09T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102466"},"modified":"2024-02-27T11:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:14:43","slug":"album-review-scarefield-a-quiet-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-scarefield-a-quiet-country\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAREFIELD – A Quiet Country (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCAREFIELD
A Quiet Country<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This self-produced debut full-length album is the creation of duo Markus Kristoffersson and Simone Manuli, hailing from Sweden and Italy respectively. The platter comes hot on the heels of December 2023\u2019s Nightmare Stories EP and is a melodic mix of thrash and power metal.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s the production, but even with its more aggressive numbers (\u2018Dead Center\u2019 and \u2018Altar Of Fear\u2019) the record feels a touch lightweight; I\u2019m imagining US power metal married with Meliah Rage and Metal Church, but with less conviction. It\u2019s all very accessible and the riffs are nice and crunchy, but if this had been released in 1987 it would have sunk without trace. Even so, it is a strangely compelling opus that at times sounds like Metallica at their tamest, especially when \u2018Ancient Evil\u2019 kicks proceedings off.<\/p>\n

The album remains fluid but pleasant and I won\u2019t be forgiven for saying that the rather formulaic vocals sound like Nickelback\u2019s Chad Kroeger if he was trying out thrash! \u2018God Of Terror\u2019 sounds somewhat forced, but even with its speed it just sounds limp. However, the band does try to vary its sound, particularly with the serrated rhythm of \u2018Spectre\u2019 and the balladic \u2018Always\u2019 which prompted me to reach for the vomit bag. Meanwhile, \u2018Goodbye\u2019 just sounds too modern and too glossy, although I don\u2019t want to take too many chunks out of what is a rather simplistic thrashy outing with groove elements. But five listens is more than enough for me.<\/p>\n

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

SCAREFIELDA Quiet Country Self-released (2024)Rating: 6\/10 This self-produced debut full-length album is the creation of duo Markus Kristoffersson and Simone Manuli, hailing from Sweden and Italy respectively. The platter comes hot on the heels of December 2023\u2019s Nightmare Stories EP and is a melodic mix of thrash and power metal. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-scarefield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102466","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=102466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102470,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102466\/revisions\/102470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}