{"id":102974,"date":"2024-04-19T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=102974"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:41:33","slug":"album-review-nuclear-tomb-terror-labyrinthian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-nuclear-tomb-terror-labyrinthian\/","title":{"rendered":"NUCLEAR TOMB – Terror Labyrinthian (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

NUCLEAR TOMB
Terror Labyrinthian<\/strong><\/span>
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\nEverlasting Spew (2024)<\/span>
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Almost a decade ago Baltimore, Maryland-based combo Nuclear Tomb teased out a 2015 single entitled \u2018Kill The Clowns\u2019 and then fell into silence, but then re-emerged three years later with a demo \u2013 Admission Of Guilt<\/em> \u2013 which was followed by a brace of EPs \u2013 Succumbing<\/em> (2019) and Offer Your Life<\/em><\/a> (2021) \u2013 over a three year period. The promise to erupt was always there although the quartet stayed relatively underground, but now, finally, a full-length album is upon us and what better roster to be on than Everlasting Spew Records.<\/p>\n

Nuclear Tomb\u2019s debut is a sneering, technical hailstorm of death-thrash that marries the snarling intensity of Sadus with strains of Pestilence at their most experimental. A serrated menace runs through Terror Labyrinthian<\/em> as the band is led by the dehydrated barks of Michael Brown who alongside Matt Ibach brings a tour de force in the axe department.<\/p>\n

To a certain extent I did expect this outing to be more experimental, although there is still a lot going on with the numerous chord shifts and jarring episodes like on \u2018Manufacturing Consent\u2019 which boasts an angular Voivod-esque tirade, especially with the crazed bass work of Amelia Morris. The brooding chugs of \u2018Born Into Torment\u2019 are a menacing joy to behold, and JD Lookabill\u2019s jagged percussion comes to the fore on the torrential \u2018Vile Humanity\u2019 and chaotic closer \u2018Ashen Lamb\u2019.<\/p>\n

Some of the blasts on offer within the album remind me of Chilean deathaters Suppression, so while the influences here are clear this is still a potent outing that I\u2019ll recommend to anyone who likes their death thrash technical but as warming as a blizzard
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Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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