{"id":103375,"date":"2024-06-06T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103375"},"modified":"2024-06-10T12:40:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:40:50","slug":"album-review-holycide-towards-idiocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-holycide-towards-idiocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLYCIDE – Towards Idiocracy (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOLYCIDE
Towards Idiocracy<\/strong><\/span>
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\nXtreem Music (2024)<\/span>
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Madrid marauders Holycide have wiped away the COVID-19 pandemic cobwebs and returned with a third full-length studio album, Towards Idiocracy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been some changes in personnel since the band\u2019s 2020 album Fist To Face<\/em>, with original vocalist Dave Rotten and guitarist Salva Esteban (who was recruited in 2014) being joined by guitarist Ankor Ram\u00edrez and drummer Santiago \u201cGoG\u201d Arroyo, while founding guitarist Vicenta J. Pay\u00e1 (who departed in 2009) has returned on bass. Musically, the band hasn\u2019t changed, but why should they? This is still the same aggressive music we heard during the days of the thrash resurgence back in 2013 when the combo released their No Escape<\/em> demo.<\/p>\n

The Spanish band kicks off their new campaign mocking the advancement in technology with \u2018A.I. Supremacy\u2019, which, despite its childish lyrics, is a potent assault boasting the recognizable sneers from Rotten as he yaps sarcastically, \u201cOh yes, how good technological are\u201d<\/em>. You need to look beyond the cheesy wordage and enjoy this album for what it is; a scathing and zipping attack brim full of acidic riffs.<\/p>\n

The title track epitomises the bands fury, but also their eyes for melodious injections amidst the flurry of the drums. Holycide are far more serious in their thrash than given credit for, take for example the scowling menace of \u2018Pleased To Be Deceived\u2019, the serrated speed of \u2018Remote Control\u2019 and the massive metallic grooves of \u2018Technophobia\u2019. It\u2019s quality thrash all round that for the most part is rapid in design, with standout track for me being \u2018Lie Is The New Truth\u2019 which fuses bursts of Slayer<\/a> and classic Num Skull.<\/p>\n

For those of you, like me, who have somewhat lost a bit of faith in the generic nature of the thrash spectrum, Holycide may provide the kick you need. They don\u2019t do anything different but there\u2019s a chemistry that understands the past while bringing in the new. Bands like Holycide are not the future, they are simply the slap in the face to make you aware of the present
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Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HOLYCIDETowards Idiocracy Xtreem Music (2024)Rating: 8\/10 Madrid marauders Holycide have wiped away the COVID-19 pandemic cobwebs and returned with a third full-length studio album, Towards Idiocracy. There\u2019s been some changes in personnel since the band\u2019s 2020 album Fist To Face, with original vocalist Dave Rotten and guitarist Salva Esteban (who was recruited in 2014) being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5712],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-holycide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103375","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=103375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103376,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103375\/revisions\/103376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}