{"id":105306,"date":"2025-08-12T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105306"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:38:59","slug":"ep-review-pseudomaimer-cavernopathic-autoentombment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-pseudomaimer-cavernopathic-autoentombment\/","title":{"rendered":"PSEUDOMAIMER – Cavernopathic Autoentombment EP (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

PSEUDOMAIMER
\nCavernopathic Autoentombment EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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While not convinced that the album title consists of real words, I\u2019m still on board for this Finnish dollop of brutal death metal. I know next to nothing about Pseudomaimer, but what I do know is that this release bludgeons your brain to a pulp.<\/p>\n

Stepping up a gear from the usual Finnish gloom, Cavernopathic Autoentombment<\/em> has more in common with the faster, more frenetic style within the genre without shifting into the tech side. The vocals are deep, guttural bellows which accompany the juggernaut rhythms that quite literally gyrate and oscillate like crazed scything blades, chewing flesh and bone to nothing.<\/p>\n

With opening song \u2018Laceration Vector Surge\u2019 the sound of Pseudomaimer is summed up as a horrid violent hammering of unrelenting power belched from some unfathomable origin whereby every din is chaotic and indecipherable. Yes, some of what\u2019s spewed up is headache inducing death clatter; a pulverising mesh and mash that all entwines into one gory web. However, the biggest issue is that while it all exists as a dominant force, this EP may as well have been one long song, because after a few hyper mallets to the skull I found myself thirsty for more variety but getting none.<\/p>\n

Some, if not all, track titles are typically extreme, from the blunt force trauma of \u2018Molten Wombs Bleed In Unison\u2019 to the almost poetically named \u2018…As Their Dried Aortas Yearn For Moisture\u2019. But any sort of lyrical strangeness just gets swept up and lost in the unrelenting maelstrom of malevolence, an utterly absurd whirlwind of musical butchery resulting in the blitzkrieg of \u2018Fleshprince Conspirator\u2019.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s praise the lord though for a hint of doomy mid-paced grinding within the foul entity that is \u2018Glorious Weeps Of Exsanguination\u2019, but such drops in aggression are so few and far between as chaos abounds around every corner. Put Undeath and Tomb Mold in a blender on hyper mode and Pseudomaimer is the result. If this album had been accomplished by a packet of paracetamol then I might have given it a higher mark.<\/p>\n

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

PSEUDOMAIMER Cavernopathic Autoentombment EP Self-released (2025) Rating: 6.5\/10 While not convinced that the album title consists of real words, I\u2019m still on board for this Finnish dollop of brutal death metal. I know next to nothing about Pseudomaimer, but what I do know is that this release bludgeons your brain to a pulp. Stepping up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5959],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-pseudomaimer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105306","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=105306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105307,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105306\/revisions\/105307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}