{"id":103110,"date":"2024-04-22T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103110"},"modified":"2024-05-07T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:29:12","slug":"ep-review-astral-gateway-spectral-dimensions-unraveled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-astral-gateway-spectral-dimensions-unraveled\/","title":{"rendered":"ASTRAL GATEWAY &#8211; Spectral Dimensions Unraveled EP (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>ASTRAL GATEWAY<br \/>Spectral Dimensions Unraveled EP<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" height=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"title3\"><span style=\"color: #c80000;\">Iron Fortress (2024)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/astralgateway_spectraldimensionsunravelledep.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the debut EP from Astral Gateway, the solo project of Tennessee native Arian Mauk who has leant his talent to various projects including Chunked and Pissrot. <em>Spectral Dimensions Unraveled<\/em> is a three track unearthly death metal platter dripping with wild, chaotic menace. Vocally it\u2019s the usual bestial grunts and coughs but the music is far less prosaic as dense, flabby walls are pierced by peculiar, angular and definitively cosmic meandering.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Fathomless Rarefaction Of Stellar Matter\u2019 is one of those stuffy yet perplexing barrages but completely unlike the often glossy and slam fused tech death around. As the EP unravels what interests me most are the pinches of melody which waft within the chunkier construction of the more expected aggression. For such a short EP it\u2019s rewarding because of those melodic twinges within the murk.<\/p>\n<p>The title track is another impenetrable wall of blasting humidity built upon a foundation of bellowing vocals and vile blasting, but it also introduces an interesting eerie interlude and slower, doomier passage too. The closing song \u2018Shattered Coerleum Remnants\u2019 exudes an esoteric menace initially before the meaty chops unravel. Some of the scurrying drums and busy solos are so intriguing before reverting back to the hefty gnashing. I\u2019m really looking forward to a full-length album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASTRAL GATEWAYSpectral Dimensions Unraveled EP Iron Fortress (2024)Rating: 8\/10 This is the debut EP from Astral Gateway, the solo project of Tennessee native Arian Mauk who has leant his talent to various projects including Chunked and Pissrot. Spectral Dimensions Unraveled is a three track unearthly death metal platter dripping with wild, chaotic menace. Vocally it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-astral-gateway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103110","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=103110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103112,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103110\/revisions\/103112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}