{"id":104936,"date":"2025-05-23T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104936"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:25:12","slug":"album-review-ossuary-abhorrent-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-ossuary-abhorrent-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"OSSUARY – Abhorrent Worship (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSSUARY
Abhorrent Worship<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDarkness Shall Rise Productions \/ Me Saco Un Ojo (2025)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no doubt that for the last decade or so that Madison, Wisconsin-based death metallers Ossuary have been one of the bands to watch. After being slightly underwhelmed by the Corpus Offal debut (Corpus Offal<\/em><\/a>) but buoyed by the latest Morbific album (Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh<\/em><\/a>), Ossuary sets the bar at some height. To make sure I wasn\u2019t too excited by this opus I made sure I gave it at least five listens in order to settle in to its groggy confines. Now on the 13th spin I can confidently state that Abhorrent Worship<\/em> is one of the albums of the year.<\/p>\n

I often wonder when the death metal genre is going to hit a brick wall, but there always seems to be a band which crops up to renew my interest. There\u2019s nothing original here, but then again originality within the genre isn\u2019t easy, but as with any quality death metal platter it\u2019s all about the delivery. Ossuary, in spite of sharing their moniker with quite a few bands, past and present, have undoubtedly mastered the art of concocting squalid evil on record. Even with those familiar gusty riffs and dank, dismal percussive flurries it\u2019s the sort of cavernous cacophony that gets right into your lungs.<\/p>\n

The vocals of guitarist Izzi Plunkett seep and seethe with such sinister aplomb, her tone a sordid leakage into your ears. \u2018Volitional Entropy\u2019 unravels like a squirming black-death nightmare, fiendishly sneering in its own grease as Izzi laps away at bile and pus, dragging the whole fetid compost into a grim doomy dungeon. The same can also be said for \u2018Inborn Scourge Unbound\u2019, a slithering, menacing and savagely archaic dump of sepulchral tumult that crawls along the barrel bottom like some oily parasite feasting on the dregs of death.<\/p>\n

\u2018Forsaken Offerings (To The Doomed Spirit)\u2019 continues supplying layers of muck and malevolence, the vocals reaching into the foulest pits of slime as Izzi throws up her innards over her own silted axe work. This is death-doom at its most rank and slurry-filled, a toxic bog of oozing emulsion as \u2018Instinctual Prostration\u2019 creeps from dormancy into a despicable black tidal riff given extra cold snaps by Izzi\u2019s wicked snarl. \u2018Barren Lamentation\u2019 rounds this cauldron off like a wet shovel of dirt filling up your orifices.<\/p>\n

Ossuary drowns you in a sodden smog, heavy on the chest and stinking with its festering fumes and yet it\u2019s not the usual swamp fest though, leave that quagmire death slobber to others. Abhorrent Worship<\/em> is more of a descent into some subterranean bowel that\u2019s lined with the sediment of souls. Worship this or be doomed.<\/p>\n

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

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