{"id":103511,"date":"2024-07-12T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103511"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:25:44","slug":"album-review-blood-feast-infinite-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-blood-feast-infinite-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOOD FEAST – Infinite Evolution (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BLOOD FEAST
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\nHells Headbangers (2024)<\/span>
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After a seven year silence, founding member and guitarist, and now also vocalist too, Adam Tranquilli drags CJ Scioscia (guitar), Adam Kieffer (drums) and newest member Dave Kramer (bass) out of the shadows for the fourth full-length Blood Feast composition.<\/p>\n

2017 opus The Future State Of Wicked<\/em><\/a> was a reasonable effort, so I was looking forward to this one. Nine tracks are served up, but after a handful of listens I\u2019m underwhelmed. Maybe it\u2019s because there is just so much thrash nowadays or the fact that Blood Feast never did regain their shine after those early albums in the 80s, but Infinite Evolution<\/em> certainly doesn\u2019t live up to its title. The production is flat, the song writing average and the only highs being the axe work, especially on closer \u2018The Chosen\u2019.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s just that my passion has waned for the glut of once cult and \u201creturning\u201d bands, but there\u2019s nothing here that excites me. \u2018Ravaging The Loins Of Mary\u2019 seems flat and so the stall is somewhat set already, even with the aggression. The only time when any sort of bite emerges is when the New Jersey band shows traces of deathliness. There are a few notable moments of atmosphere but not enough vim to call it evolution, even if this is a very different band from the 80s.<\/p>\n

\u2018Outbreak\u2019 is a solid enough thrasher with a strong bass, but \u2018Never Will I Die\u2019 is proof that Adam Tranquilli taking over vocal duties wasn\u2019t the best idea. There\u2019s no real personality to the band and while it\u2019s not as bad as the recent Evil Dead album (Toxic Grace<\/em><\/a>), Infinite Evolution<\/em> is just another modern day generic thrash record, fact.<\/p>\n

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

BLOOD FEASTInfinite Evolution Hells Headbangers (2024)Rating: 6\/10 After a seven year silence, founding member and guitarist, and now also vocalist too, Adam Tranquilli drags CJ Scioscia (guitar), Adam Kieffer (drums) and newest member Dave Kramer (bass) out of the shadows for the fourth full-length Blood Feast composition. 2017 opus The Future State Of Wicked was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-blood-feast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103511","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=103511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103512,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103511\/revisions\/103512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}