{"id":105388,"date":"2025-08-29T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105388"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:54:03","slug":"album-review-crimson-butchery-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-crimson-butchery-stalker\/","title":{"rendered":"CRIMSON BUTCHERY – Stalker (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRIMSON BUTCHERY
\nStalker<\/strong><\/span>
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\nIron Fortress (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s now a hat-trick of albums in as many years for the Irish twosome of Shane \u201cRed\u201d Corcoran (vocals) and John Roche (guitar). Crimson Butchery surf the tumultuous wave that was originally formed by the likes of Cannibal Corpse, Cryptopsy and Brutality.<\/p>\n

Stalker<\/em> is essentially a 90s death metal vibe. The album is chock-a-block with riffs and some dazzling moments of intricacy with songs like \u2018Bludgeoned To The Grave\u2019 and \u2018Cranium Devourment\u2019 which live up to their titles. Some of these structures are so tight and toned that I\u2019d compare them to something Dying Fetus might compose.<\/p>\n

Lean, technically accomplished pummeling and grotesquely staccato\u2019d, Stalker<\/em> offers no loose change. Instead, it\u2019s muscular frame results in a frantic yet tidy selection of sweeps and leads which whizz through your brain like a drill. \u2018Lab Rat\u2019 boasts a Cannibal Corpse construction, lined with a pulverising groove that sends you for a dizzy spin.<\/p>\n

The key here is Crimson Butchery keeps everything compact and to the point, never bemusing the audience, but instead grinding with that Cryptopsy execution whereby riffs twist and turn like great seismic coils. \u2018Trauma Masturbation\u2019 features a tinge of Cattle Decapitation and is another unrelenting onslaught built upon a mesh of bruising riffs.<\/p>\n

The technicality within such a brain-mashing framework has to be admired, and even with some 90s flickering, Stalker<\/em> is very much a modern day death metal opus for those who care not for morbidity but instead love to have their membranes tangled.<\/p>\n

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

CRIMSON BUTCHERY Stalker Iron Fortress (2025) Rating: 7\/10 It\u2019s now a hat-trick of albums in as many years for the Irish twosome of Shane \u201cRed\u201d Corcoran (vocals) and John Roche (guitar). Crimson Butchery surf the tumultuous wave that was originally formed by the likes of Cannibal Corpse, Cryptopsy and Brutality. Stalker is essentially a 90s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-crimson-butchery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105388","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=105388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105389,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105388\/revisions\/105389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}