{"id":103788,"date":"2024-06-06T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103788"},"modified":"2024-08-28T09:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:59:44","slug":"album-review-shrine-of-maggots-spiritual-feces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-shrine-of-maggots-spiritual-feces\/","title":{"rendered":"SHRINE OF MAGGOTS – Spiritual Feces (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHRINE OF MAGGOTS
Spiritual Feces<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRat Covenant (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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When I saw the band name I expected one of those Portland or Pennsylvanian grisly death metal acts, so imagine my surprise when this mysterious one-man project from Germany revealed itself as something akin to blackened punk metal musically but with a hardcore \/ sludgy vocal bark.<\/p>\n

Spiritual Feces<\/em> is an album that\u2019s far catchier than I imagined it to be too, even if the vocals do tend to grate. The creator is the same guy responsible for black \/ doom \/ death act Untier and black metal band Gr\u00e4uelso, and some of those traits do veer into this seven track release.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Temple Of The Worm\u2019 has a rotten punk kick; it\u2019s high energy raw galloping led by throaty scrapes and hard drums. Imagine a vicious fusing of Toxic Holocaust, Mot\u00f6rhead, Venom and a hastier Midnight. There\u2019s some killer introductory solo work on \u2018High On Death\u2019 which drags us into the furious blackened whirlpool of rough punk and oily metal.<\/p>\n

This is volatile stuff threaded by a sturdy, rasping black metal spine but without ever reaching into the murky depths of the genre. Instead, Shrine Of Maggots mixes things up. For example, \u2018All Will Fall\u2019 begins like classic Slayer<\/a> but then takes on a foreboding mid-tempo trudging that\u2019s semi-Celtic Frost mixed with rupturing storm clouds.<\/p>\n

\u2018Shit-stained Sky\u2019 is a totally furious cut injected with some discordant streaks and abrasive angles, while the title track begins with such sinister scowls and cackles before feverishly scurrying like a rat up a drain pipe. The black thrash always remains present (\u2018I Detest This Life\u2019), and yet there\u2019s an ability to work round the more straightforward dashes by implementing occasional unorthodox flashes and oozes as closer \u2018Witchfinder\u2019s Genital\u2019 attests.<\/p>\n

Scathing throughout, Spiritual Feces<\/em> is first and foremost a black metal album but one with numerous jagged and thorny branches stemming from it. Not particularly odd or grotesque, Shrine Of Maggots remains a project that suggests a strong future because once you\u2019re hooked in its folds there is no escaping the web of spite.<\/p>\n

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

SHRINE OF MAGGOTSSpiritual Feces Rat Covenant (2024)Rating: 7\/10 When I saw the band name I expected one of those Portland or Pennsylvanian grisly death metal acts, so imagine my surprise when this mysterious one-man project from Germany revealed itself as something akin to blackened punk metal musically but with a hardcore \/ sludgy vocal bark. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5766],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-shrine-of-maggots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103788","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=103788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103789,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103788\/revisions\/103789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}