{"id":105113,"date":"2025-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105113"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:50:20","slug":"album-review-filth-time-to-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-filth-time-to-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"FILTH – Time To Rot (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTime To Rot<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMe Saco Un Ojo \/ Rotted Life (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve waited for this for three long years, a debut record from a Swedish death metal band that doesn\u2019t sound like the usual Swedish stuff. Forget HM-2 buzzsaw generic bullshit, Time To Rot<\/em> is, as the band moniker suggests, utter filth. From its stylishly sick cover art to its gruesome contents, this is an album that wades through gunk and wallows in slop.<\/p>\n

This whole soup of decay is the product of Per (vocals and drums), Sebastian (lead guitar and bass) and Ismael (rhythm guitar). Filth bridges gaps between death n\u2019 doom metal, crafting morbid trudges which leak such an ominous concealing fluid, and for 30 minutes the Gothenburg-based band encases the listener in a coffin of clay, dragging the last breathe by way of mid-tempo miasma. Utterly despairing, this release coats the lungs in a gluey ash, ominously existing within its own riff coils and regressive thuds.<\/p>\n

The title track is a corpse concoction of churned compost and bone mulch, dismally equipped to suffocate after one horrid spin of its cancerous contours. Maybe throw such an abhorrent project in the same tar pit as Spain\u2019s Sanctuarium, although this peat bog leans more towards one of those evil old school death metal demos of yore. \u2018Emaciated\u2019 wastes no time in plunging into its own pungent orifice; riffs grind through layers of mulch and muck as flickers of primordial bluster brood chaos within.<\/p>\n

The sepulchral fumes of \u2018Decrepit Womb\u2019 and opener \u2018Odious Obsession\u2019 squirm languidly as worms within sodden soil. Never a tirade, more of a chest-crushing, anxiety inducing slog spiked with fits of despair. Even by choosing to add a kick to the labour, it\u2019s never anything more than a spasm of dying hope amidst a dense scurry of dampened percussion and miserable bass. That\u2019s not to say that this is one of those torturous affairs, far from it in fact.<\/p>\n

Filth doesn\u2019t expose the listener to funeral doom, Time To Rot<\/em> is very much death metal, but it\u2019s delivered in that abysmal way which makes you feel like your innards have been sucked out of your arsehole. \u2018Live In Agony Die In Pain\u2019 festers like a bubbling cesspit. The dank echoes of sordid drums echoing around thick, moss-clung walls as the guitars moan and gnash while at the same time choke on their own fluids. \u2018Flesh Dress\u2019 is another gruesome groove, wafting like noxious vapour through the veil of gloom as each well soiled riff permeates the blanket of foul air. Amongst the grot and clots it is indeed, TIIIMMMEE TO ROTTTT!!!!<\/p>\n

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

FILTH Time To Rot Me Saco Un Ojo \/ Rotted Life (2025) Rating: 8\/10 I\u2019ve waited for this for three long years, a debut record from a Swedish death metal band that doesn\u2019t sound like the usual Swedish stuff. Forget HM-2 buzzsaw generic bullshit, Time To Rot is, as the band moniker suggests, utter filth. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-filth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105113","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=105113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105114,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105113\/revisions\/105114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}