{"id":104754,"date":"2025-04-12T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104754"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:37:57","slug":"ep-review-liquified-chapters-of-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-liquified-chapters-of-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"LIQUIFIED – Chapters Of Cruelty EP (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LIQUIFIED
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\nSelf-released (2025)<\/span>
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You can add the city of Nottingham to the burgeoning UK death metal scene now because festering combo Liquified have just issued their debut EP. Seventeen minutes in length, Chapters Of Cruelty<\/em> features five tracks \u2013 \u2018Skinned And Binned\u2019, \u2018Cranium Cocktail\u2019, \u2018Abhorrent Ascension\u2019, \u2018Septic Tank Sarcophagus\u2019 and \u2018Skeletal Sludge\u2019 \u2013 which are all rather standard goofy gore hymns drenched in slime and silt.<\/p>\n

\u2018Skinned And Binned\u2019 begins with a hooky riff raked straight from a compost heap. The drums thud hard, the vocals drizzle the whole fetid lump in a coagulated phlegm and then the meat n\u2019 potatoes kick of pace ensues. It\u2019s heavy stuff even if the drums sound a bit mechanical, but a melancholic solo introduces itself at the rear end like a tapeworm spiralling from the orifice.<\/p>\n

This is very much chunk-blowing death metal that fuses a Cannibal Corpse catchy charm and modern day cesspit sucking filth, although expect all manner of influences within the drudgery. \u2018Cranium Cocktail\u2019 provides a tech-death zaniness by way of some hectic percussion and manic riffs, although the slower breakdown allows the chunky, robust grooves to flow again.<\/p>\n

However, instrumental \u2018Abhorrent Ascension\u2019 is the band at their most melodic; a solo soars with a hint of majesty and the cut even boasts a blackened vibe towards the end. So, while Liquified exist mostly in the formulaic death metal vein there\u2019s certainly potential here to suggest they may rapidly grow out of the bread and butter grunts and into something more experimental.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the mix of pace and mid-tempo bludgeoning which benefits the sound most, hence the reason that \u2018Septic Tank Sarcophagus\u2019 is such an enticing track due to the fleshy, measured grooves which also come to the fore with closer \u2018Skeletal Sludge\u2019 where there\u2019s a hint of death grind in its style. There are streaks of Broken Hope in this EP too, so anyone with a passion for death metal throughout its gnarly gore-soaked spectrum may want to snap this one up.<\/p>\n

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

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