{"id":103583,"date":"2024-07-12T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103583"},"modified":"2024-07-26T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T21:42:46","slug":"ep-review-mortal-fear-blood-sweat-and-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-mortal-fear-blood-sweat-and-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"MORTAL FEAR – Blood, Sweat And Beer EP (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MORTAL FEAR
Blood, Sweat And Beer EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It seems rather odd to hear a Norwegian band trying to sound like a thrashy US hardcore outfit, but that is the case here with Mortal Fear. One of several acts to use the moniker, this particular group formed in 2020 and this is the band\u2019s debut EP.<\/p>\n

Blood, Sweat And Beer<\/em> boasts decent cover art and serves up four short tracks, all of which are constructed in typical crossover fashion with the speedy skatecore rhythms and streetwise vocal rants.<\/p>\n

Opening tune \u2018Mortal Fear\u2019 offers plenty of zip and is littered with gang chants yet rages like any other release from the golden era of urban hardcore. \u2018I Am The End\u2019 is more of a straight up thrasher and sounds like a cross between Slayer<\/a> and Municipal Waste, very much skittish thrashcore but with a slick hook that draws you in from the off.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thankful the EP runs for just 12 minutes, meaning this familiar crossover doesn\u2019t take up too much of your time. \u2018The Reaper\u2019s Call\u2019 is the fastest track here, rapid in its percussion and extra hasty with the axe flurries. It\u2019s the sort of song which conjures up images of beer soaked mosh pits, bloody skateboarding wounds, backwards turned caps and street graffiti. Meanwhile, the closing title track mixes some good mid-tempo bashing with faster blasts of old school thrash.<\/p>\n

This is all a bit generic and if you\u2019ve been to one frat party you\u2019ve been to them all, except this is Norway! Rowdy while it lasts but the joke wears off quickly.<\/p>\n

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

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