{"id":103168,"date":"2024-05-10T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103168"},"modified":"2024-05-14T13:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:01:42","slug":"album-review-vaticinal-rites-cascading-memories-of-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-vaticinal-rites-cascading-memories-of-immortality\/","title":{"rendered":"VATICINAL RITES – Cascading Memories Of Immortality (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

VATICINAL RITES
Cascading Memories Of Immortality<\/strong><\/span>
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\nEverlasting Spew (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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After a solid start in 2021 with their self-titled debut EP, London, England-based death metal throng Vaticinal Rites finally embarks on a full-length. Of all the UK acts within the genre doing the rounds these guys are one of the more overlooked, but after giving this outing several spins I\u2019m sure the rave reviews and accolades will flood in.<\/p>\n

If you like death metal in the vein of Monstrosity then you\u2019ll enjoy what\u2019s on offer here. Cascading Memories Of Immortality<\/em> features nine songs with a tidy duration of 35 minutes and not an ounce of fat in sight. The vocal barks of Marcus Broome are not putrid, but more basic coughs befitting of any mid-90s band within the genre. The band sounds relatively clean and precise when compared to a lot of the boggy and soggy acts doing the rounds.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of organic energy here as the quartet unleashes some devastating blasts, but where the band really shines is with those gargantuan steady pulses as showcased on opener \u2018Foiled Skirmish\u2019 alongside the colossal \u2018Bowels Of Gargantua\u2019. In certain passages throughout the band channels a Morbid Angel-style, but more so with the perverse barrage of riffs, lethal bellows and maniacal solos as exhibited on \u2018Siphoning Plasma From The Gods\u2019. \u2018Corporeal Affliction\u2019 is another favourite due to its doom-laden grinding.<\/p>\n

Vaticinal Rites provide dense walls of black riffs that crush the listener into an unrecognisable pulp. There\u2019s nothing necessarily out of the ordinary, but such is the weight of songs like \u2018Asphyxiation Of Ecstasy\u2019 and \u2018Unhinged Cataclysm\u2019 which veer into Dead Congregation and Vital Remains territory. Die-hard death metal fanatics of the old school persuasion will adore the nods towards the early 90s which were also evident on previous releases. Cascading Memories Of Immortality<\/em> is the natural next step for the band, so allow yourself to be swept up by its foaming tides.<\/p>\n

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

VATICINAL RITESCascading Memories Of Immortality Everlasting Spew (2024)Rating: 8\/10 After a solid start in 2021 with their self-titled debut EP, London, England-based death metal throng Vaticinal Rites finally embarks on a full-length. Of all the UK acts within the genre doing the rounds these guys are one of the more overlooked, but after giving this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-vaticinal-rites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103168","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=103168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103178,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103168\/revisions\/103178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}