{"id":103724,"date":"2024-07-26T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103724"},"modified":"2024-08-20T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T08:28:36","slug":"album-review-laceration-i-erode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-laceration-i-erode\/","title":{"rendered":"LACERATION – I Erode (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LACERATION
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\n20 Buck Spin (2024)<\/span>
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Drifting across the waters of San Francisco\u2019s Bay Area like a deadly mist, ripping death-thrash machine Laceration spits forth its sophomore slab in the vein of today\u2019s Skeletal Remains, and from the past, Morgoth.<\/p>\n

Although I\u2019m not a fan of the \u201cun-title\u201d title, I Erode<\/em> quite literally leaves the ears for dust musically. Drummer Aerin Johnson, who joined last year, is an absolute beast behind the kit as he pummels us from the opening intro \u2018Degradation\u2019 into the deep bowels of instrumental \u2018Dreams Of The Formless\u2019 before shutting off our air supply with the closing title track.<\/p>\n

I Erode<\/em> is an outing that\u2019s easily accessed due to its meaty riffs, the result being 32 minutes of death metal that is both aggressive and melodic. Laceration cuts to the chase with its dynamic rhythms bolstered by the chesty vocals of guitarist Luke Cazares, his style somewhat similar to Marc Grewe of Morgoth.<\/p>\n

The album is extremely wholesome and concise as songs such as \u2018Excised\u2019 boast that early 90s familiarity, mainly because of the beefy and semi-technical axe work from Cazares and Donnie Small. Eli Small has such a chunky bass tone too, the whole record a dense framework laced with thrashy tinges (\u2018Vile Incarnate\u2019), and although there is complexity (\u2018Carcerality\u2019) within the layers this isn\u2019t an album that attempts to alienate or befuddle. Instead, the listener is engulfed by a series of beefy chops (\u2018Sadistic Enthrallment\u2019) made all the more comforting by the robust nature of each instrument. \u2018Strangled By Hatred\u2019 exhibits the ability of the combo to mix pacier segments with gouging mid-paced rolls.<\/p>\n

I truly believe that when the end of year polls for best album roll around, I Erode<\/em> will feature in many a critics list. I\u2019m not quite as excited by the record due to its familiar shades, but it’s certainly an album I thoroughly enjoyed from top to bottom.<\/p>\n

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

LACERATIONI Erode 20 Buck Spin (2024)Rating: 8\/10 Drifting across the waters of San Francisco\u2019s Bay Area like a deadly mist, ripping death-thrash machine Laceration spits forth its sophomore slab in the vein of today\u2019s Skeletal Remains, and from the past, Morgoth. Although I\u2019m not a fan of the \u201cun-title\u201d title, I Erode quite literally leaves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5756],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-laceration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103724","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=103724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103725,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103724\/revisions\/103725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}