{"id":102927,"date":"2024-04-05T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102927"},"modified":"2024-04-17T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:30:13","slug":"album-review-witch-vomit-funeral-sanctum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-witch-vomit-funeral-sanctum\/","title":{"rendered":"WITCH VOMIT – Funeral Sanctum (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITCH VOMIT
Funeral Sanctum<\/strong><\/span>
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\n20 Buck Spin (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A new Witch Vomit release is always a welcome sight. Funeral Sanctum<\/em> is the third full-length outing from the Portland, Oregon-based band and comes wrapped in an almost wintry black metal styled slice of cover art. No surprise then that the chilly death metal carnage contained within is as aggressively relentless as many a black metal barrage as \u2018Endless Fall\u2019 erupts from the subtle ashes of instrumental intro \u2018Dying Embers\u2019.<\/p>\n

The album gushes like an evil wind that swirls with menace, occasionally offering slower, brooding twists as evidenced on \u2018Serpentine Shadows\u2019 whose rich, shuddering content brings with a blackened fury while spattered with moodier riffs. However, for the most part this 30-odd minute outing is a frightful noise built upon icy riffs and a general permafrost feel which wasn\u2019t apparent on previous records.<\/p>\n

Witch Vomit now has more in common with, say, Dissection than the fetid pools of murky death metal, and while the opus is a tirade of utmost devastation some fans may not welcome the evolution. Still, it\u2019s hard not to be impressed by the volcanic chills of the cacophonous title cut or the stifling assault of \u2018Dominion Of A Darkened Realm\u2019 with its impressive solo.<\/p>\n

Funeral Sanctum<\/em> is a stormy return from the Portland posse whose frozen landscapes and mid-90s impenetrable density suggests a band on a real mission that we can never truly understand or predict.<\/p>\n

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

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