{"id":104636,"date":"2025-03-14T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104636"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:14:00","slug":"ep-review-acetone-left-to-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-acetone-left-to-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"ACETONE – Left To Rot EP (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACETONE
Left To Rot EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2025)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cTerror, torture, fear… Terror, torture, pain… Terror, torture, death!…\u201d<\/em> and repeat and repeat. And so Canadian death metal mob Acetone announces itself to the metal world with their debut EP, Left To Rot<\/em>; five tracks of unapologetic no frills death metal that plods and scurries without a care in the world.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Mind Trap\u2019 is stark, stodgy and fusty, harkening back to the early 90s with its heavy set growls and stripped back riffs. I\u2019m surprised such mundane grooves can be so appealing, but on Acetone trudge like a stubborn yet ever decreasing army that refuses to give up. Strangely, the production is airtight to the extent that the instrumentation just doesn\u2019t breath. With each dour riff, each plodding beat and each bass line one feels as if they are in a pitch black coffin gasping for breath.<\/p>\n

\u2018Visceral Putrefaction\u2019 is wonderfully bland, the riffs morbidly reserved and the vocals just miserable in their chesty vibrations. As with the opening cut there is repetition in the lyrics as the word \u201cintestine\u201d gets mentioned six times. This is the sort of basic but burly death grunting that emerged by the bucket load after 1990, and while back then such mouldy rants eventually ran out of steam, Acetone is proof that there\u2019s still life in the old dog yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife\u2019s fading away, sight\u2019s fading away. Life… death,\u201d<\/em> growls Dave Jobin on \u2018Fade\u2019 to the steady rhythmic grind. Further examples of such monolithic mud traipsing come to the fore within the dank realms of \u2018Internal Bleeding\u2019. The band doesn\u2019t shy away from speedier flashes but as \u2018Brain Breath\u2019 rigorously rumbles at varying tempos and melodies I\u2019m still amazed by the fact that such plodding charms my soul.<\/p>\n

Reliable is the word here, so if you crave the bog standard within the genre I\u2019d pick this up. Null, void, dry and as stiff as a corpse\u2026 I like it.<\/p>\n

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

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