{"id":103413,"date":"2024-06-11T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103413"},"modified":"2024-06-17T10:54:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T09:54:37","slug":"ep-review-celestial-sanctuary-visions-of-stagnant-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-celestial-sanctuary-visions-of-stagnant-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"CELESTIAL SANCTUARY – Visions Of Stagnant Blood EP (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CELESTIAL SANCTUARY
Visions Of Stagnant Blood EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Following last year\u2019s rather disappointing sophomore full-length outing, Insatiable Thirst For Torment<\/em><\/a>, British death metallers Celestial Sanctuary are back with a new three-song EP. I prefer the look of this new release; the art work is zany and demented, and thankfully the sounds within are pretty vile too as the Cambridge, England-based crew torment us with raw torrents of sludge and bile that boast blackened traces boosted by the mastering of J.B. van der Wal.<\/p>\n

The monstrous ten-minute chunk \u2018Gavage Of The Vile\u2019 is a force into itself, a blackened rush of deathness with a dark and underlying cosmic passage of serenity, possibly hinting at a new future direction. Thomas Cronin\u2019s bestial howls continue to resonate around the pitch black chasm of riffs, especially on the violent opening title track, a pulverising surge of horror pierced by a solid solo. \u2018Puddles Of You Reflect The Filth Within\u2019 is as equally punishing with its brutal riffs, circa Cannibal Corpse, before steadying itself to a chug of gore.<\/p>\n

As an EP, Visions Of Stagnant Blood<\/em> is a return to meaty form for the band and a bludgeoning riddled with archaic and primitive slickness and sickness.<\/p>\n

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

CELESTIAL SANCTUARYVisions Of Stagnant Blood EP Self-released (2024)Rating: 8\/10 Following last year\u2019s rather disappointing sophomore full-length outing, Insatiable Thirst For Torment, British death metallers Celestial Sanctuary are back with a new three-song EP. I prefer the look of this new release; the art work is zany and demented, and thankfully the sounds within are pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-celestial-sanctuary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103413","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=103413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103414,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103413\/revisions\/103414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}