{"id":103125,"date":"2024-05-08T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103125"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:00:40","slug":"ep-review-grave-ghoul-the-house-of-dead-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-grave-ghoul-the-house-of-dead-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAVE GHOUL – The House Of Dead Flesh EP (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

GRAVE GHOUL
The House Of Dead Flesh EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDismal Fate (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ryan Wills (Blood Rage \/ Seven Doors \/ Bludgeoned Beyond Reason) is turning into a one man death metal machine. His creative juices continue to flow with this, the second EP from his gore-crusted Grave Ghoul project. After last year\u2019s Living Burial Ground<\/em>, Wills concocts more Mortician-inspired splatter as another selection of meaty riffs traipse by like an overweight, sweaty psychopath marching his latest victim into his basement.<\/p>\n

From the crude cover art to the predictable yet goofy track titles, this EP demands that you retrieve the dusty VHS player from the attic and sit through hours of crust-ridden 70s and 80s horror movies. Wills chomps his way through each track as if he were literally forcing you to gorge on each scuzzy riff, each one groovily grinding its gears to the rhythm of ritual stabbing.<\/p>\n

\u2018Make Them Die Slowly\u2019, \u2018A Puzzle Of Body Parts\u2019 and \u2018Shambling Eyeless Corpses\u2019 are sandwiched nicely between juicy opener \u2018Limitless Methods Of Mutilation\u2019 and foul closing title track \u2018The House Of Dead Flesh\u2019. Flashes of Necrophagia are introduced with every passing heap of drudgery, and I\u2019ve no doubt that Grave Ghoul would make an ideal companion to Scottish one man band Putrid Fate.<\/p>\n

Throughout this EP the listener is devoured by a cerebral catchiness while being coated by dollops of fun as Grave Ghoul injects itself into an already burgeoning UK death metal scene. Sick, twisted and terrific, Grave Ghoul plays out like one of those repulsive video nasties which, upon further reflection, is nothing more than tomato sauce and rubber, but still wonderfully schlock.<\/p>\n

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

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