{"id":103937,"date":"2024-09-20T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103937"},"modified":"2024-09-24T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:15:15","slug":"album-review-outer-graves-terminal-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-outer-graves-terminal-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"OUTER GRAVES – Terminal Limit (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

OUTER GRAVES
Terminal Limit<\/strong><\/span>
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\nTransylvanian Recordings (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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After forming out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin two years ago, death metal combo Outer Graves looks towards the stars for its lyrical themes. Cosmic horror death metal is the order of the day here as Kate Coysh (vocals), Zachary Muffett (guitar), Ryan Shaw (bass) and Jeffrey Kramer (drums) serves up a rather short (27 minutes) debut album which actually proves to be quite an uneventful experience, apart from the demented vocalisations of Coysh.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Scavenger\u2019 is masterful at scraping the spinal column with its chilly blackened rhythms and the percussion provides extra bony juddering. It\u2019s a cool way to start the stark process as Outer Graves opt for a mesmeric steadiness awash with icy glow. Sadly, there is little variety after this as the likes of \u2018Malevolent Entity\u2019, \u2018Hostile Anomaly\u2019 and \u2018Seismic Scourge\u2019 follow similar routes as jagged riffs combine with chalky bass lines.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no denying the galactic quality of the band, but I just wish there was more technical variety constructed within the otherworldly framework. \u2018Distress Beacon\u2019, \u2018Airlock Massacre\u2019 and \u2018Termination Quadrant\u2019 are all consistent in their manner, but without Coysh\u2019s nasty rasps these would be generic compositions. It\u2019s as if something extra is promised with each track but nothing ever materialises, another case in point being \u2018Re-Entry\u2019.<\/p>\n

Even though some of the tracks are relatively short I find myself struggling to stay tuned into what quickly becomes predictable bland fare. I still think there\u2019s a lot of potential here so I won\u2019t be so quick to dismiss this outing, especially with the sneering vocal performance from Coysh, but overall there\u2019s just not enough going on here to keep me captivated through the grey.<\/p>\n

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

OUTER GRAVESTerminal Limit Transylvanian Recordings (2024)Rating: 6.5\/10 After forming out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin two years ago, death metal combo Outer Graves looks towards the stars for its lyrical themes. Cosmic horror death metal is the order of the day here as Kate Coysh (vocals), Zachary Muffett (guitar), Ryan Shaw (bass) and Jeffrey Kramer (drums) serves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-outer-graves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103937","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=103937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103943,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103937\/revisions\/103943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}