{"id":105446,"date":"2025-08-12T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105446"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:56:33","slug":"album-review-mortuary-ghoul-wear-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-mortuary-ghoul-wear-your-face\/","title":{"rendered":"MORTUARY GHOUL – Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MORTUARY GHOUL
\nWear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux<\/strong><\/span>
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\nIron Fortress (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Existing as a reworked version of Mortuary Ghoul\u2019s Corpse Exhumation<\/em><\/a> EP from 2022, Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux<\/em> is a more expansive composition featuring a trio of new tracks and tacky artwork from Julian Mortuus. Inspired, as before, by cult horror movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em> (1974), Wear Your Face…<\/em> is a full on dose of Mortician worship which comes complete with a cover rendition of the American band\u2019s \u2018Chainsaw Dismemberment\u2019 for extra ghoulish fun.<\/p>\n

Ohio\u2019s Mortuary Ghoul, if you\u2019re not aware, provides plenty of meaty, scuzzy riffs that churn with an in infectious goofiness while the grisly lurk beneath the stench. The Mortician influence means that a thick haze wafts over the ten songs on offer to the extent that after my fourth listen I just had to watch a few sleazy 70s horror films such as Deranged<\/em> (1974).<\/p>\n

The three new tracks are more of note, with \u2018The Saw Is Family\u2019, \u2018Bone Room\u2019 and \u2018Mallet To The Head\u2019 all grinding with psychotic delight as riffs and drums act more as hammering weapons of murder. \u2018The Saw Is Family\u2019 is gruesomely aggressive, but in contrast my favourite slab, \u2018Bone Room\u2019, churns like a cauldron of jellified innards, congealed vomit and bone broth. The riffs are severely heavy, gnashing like hog tusks in a field of corpse mulch. These two songs sum up the repulsive gore-caked death sludge of Mortuary Ghoul, and \u2018Mallet To The Head\u2019 is no different, a slaughterhouse of blast beats and an abattoir of suffocating riffs, a devastating death metal avalanche.<\/p>\n

As for the rest, well, it\u2019s all solidly remixed and remastered by Wes Mousseau, but was all this necessary? To be honest, it\u2019s all a bit pointless, especially if you already own the original EP. But what I will say is that if, like me, you\u2019re a vinyl collector, then try and grab yourself a copy of the limited edition vinyl which comes with a \u201cskin mask\u201d.<\/p>\n

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

MORTUARY GHOUL Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux Iron Fortress (2025) Rating: 7\/10 Existing as a reworked version of Mortuary Ghoul\u2019s Corpse Exhumation EP from 2022, Wear Your Face: Corpse Exhumation Redux is a more expansive composition featuring a trio of new tracks and tacky artwork from Julian Mortuus. Inspired, as before, by cult horror […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-mortuary-ghoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105446","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=105446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105447,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105446\/revisions\/105447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}