{"id":102492,"date":"2024-02-15T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102492"},"modified":"2024-02-29T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:58:54","slug":"album-review-repelledeath-repelledeath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-repelledeath-repelledeath\/","title":{"rendered":"REPELLEDEATH – Repelledeath (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

REPELLEDEATH
Repelledeath<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Is that Sylvester Stallone on the front cover battling four ectoplasmic manifestations? It\u2019s certainly a striking 80s styled illustration and contained within is a vicious slice of Qu\u00e9bec City thrash.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know much else about this slab but the cover art makes more sense when you discover that there is a track named after the 1986 Stallone movie Cobra<\/em>. Meanwhile, you also get the song titles \u2018Die Hard\u2019, \u2018Amityville\u2019, \u2018Mad Max\u2019 and \u2018Carrie\u2019 alongside \u2018Human Centipede\u2019, \u2018From Dusk Till Dawn\u2019 and namesake track \u2018Repelledeath\u2019.<\/p>\n

The album isn\u2019t as cheesy as I thought it might be, but what\u2019s really interesting is the mix of crunchy thrash and an almost blackened speed metal streak that reminds me of early Kreator mixed with a black metal snap. The vocals of Danny Drouin have a raw, scratchy dynamic, but behind such sniping are some great, groove-based riffs. Admittedly the vocal squabbles are a bit too quarrelsome on \u2018Amityville\u2019, but one cannot ignore the spikiness of the speed metal on show.<\/p>\n

There are some nice melodic elements throughout too, but for the most part it is that aforementioned marrying of crunch and vicious speed. I also like the fact that the album is only 27 minutes long and so the general feel is of a whipping shortness.<\/p>\n

This album is a bit of a thrash gem and one that is riveting in its reckless nature.<\/p>\n

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

REPELLEDEATHRepelledeath Self-released (2024)Rating: 7\/10 Is that Sylvester Stallone on the front cover battling four ectoplasmic manifestations? It\u2019s certainly a striking 80s styled illustration and contained within is a vicious slice of Qu\u00e9bec City thrash. I don\u2019t know much else about this slab but the cover art makes more sense when you discover that there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-repelledeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102492","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=102492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102493,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102492\/revisions\/102493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}