{"id":103171,"date":"2024-05-10T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103171"},"modified":"2024-05-14T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T10:55:26","slug":"album-review-necrophagia-moribundis-grim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-necrophagia-moribundis-grim\/","title":{"rendered":"NECROPHAGIA – Moribundis Grim (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

NECROPHAGIA
Moribundis Grim<\/strong><\/span>
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\nTime To Kill (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 5.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I honestly don\u2019t know how I feel about a posthumous Necrophagia opus. The album is basically haunted by the last vocal recordings of founder Killjoy (who passed away<\/a> in March 2018), the result being a somewhat patchy affair littered with rough but certainly not ready demo recordings where the remaining members are joined by Mirai Kawashima from Sigh on keyboards, former Necrophagia member Titta Tani on drums and Incantation frontman John McEntee contributing additional vocals.<\/p>\n

Yes, there remains the horror obsessed dynamics such as the opening tribute to the 1981 Italian flick The House By The Cemetery<\/em>, but musically I think this would have benefitted from being an EP as only the first few tracks are worthwhile. Anyway, \u2018Mental Decay\u2019 with its thrashing mayhem and \u2018Bleeding Torment\u2019 are lean enough examples of the band at their menacing best, the latter opting for a Black Sabbath<\/a> chugging.<\/p>\n

However, the live version of \u2018The Wicked\u2019, from 2017, and a cover of Samhain\u2019s \u2018Halloween 3\u2019 plus the two instrumentals \u2013 \u2018Scarecrows\u2019 and \u2018Sundown\u2019 \u2013 would normally appear as pointless if it was not for the band\u2019s way of keeping Killjoy\u2019s last moments on this planet alive. Hopefully this will be the last entry in the Necrophagia discography and Killjoy\u2019s ghost can now be laid to rest.<\/p>\n

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

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