{"id":105477,"date":"2025-09-11T00:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105477"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:41:41","slug":"album-review-bloodfed-pandemonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-bloodfed-pandemonium\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOODFED – Pandemonium (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BLOODFED
\nPandemonium<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFatalism Musickness (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not often I get to review Indonesian death metal, but here\u2019s the debut full-length outing from Septian (vocals). Vebri (guitar), Uyuasi (bass) and Yudi (drums).<\/p>\n

Bloodfed started out in 2021 and released a three-track demo. The songs from that release all feature here on what is a rather short album at 28 minutes. The band also throws in a cover rendition of the Grave song \u2018Into The Grave\u2019 for good measure, but what really strikes hard are the riffs.<\/p>\n

Although surprisingly inspired by the chainsaw surges of Entombed and Dismember, \u2018Eternal Sacrifice\u2019 is an absolute riff-a-rama of HM-2. I\u2019ve often criticised so many death metal bands for aping the Swedish sound because a) it\u2019s inferior to the originals, and b) it\u2019s so predictable and generic, so how this new Indonesian combo can churn out the same style but with intriguing vim is beyond me, although it\u2019s a joy to behold.<\/p>\n

Another surprise element are the vocals, which, on a track like \u2018Plague\u2019, have a blackened sneer, although there\u2019s still that archetypal Entombed tone and scowl. \u2018Beyond The Veil Of Sanity\u2019 boasts such an evil tempo, the vocals a snarling, chesty ooze over the wall of constant buzzing. The guitar sound is very much a wall of sound, foaming as tidal rushes, particularly on the more aggressive tracks such as \u2018Taste Of Death\u2019 and \u2018Soulless Monster\u2019. Again, there are rabid dashes of blackness to certain streaks, although much of what is served up wouldn\u2019t seem that out of place on Entombed\u2019s classic 1991 album Clandestine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Wrath Of Hell\u2019 is the standout moment if you like truly ravenous Swedish death metal, it\u2019s fast and furious and the drums are pure savagery. The guitar tone on final song \u2018The Cursed Evil\u2019 sounds like a war of chainsaws, yet the quartet displays a methodical approach within the aggression. This won\u2019t be the last band you\u2019ll hear taking the Stockholm sound under their wing, but Bloodfed are, unlike a lot of acts, good at doing it.<\/p>\n

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

BLOODFED Pandemonium Fatalism Musickness (2025) Rating: 7\/10 It\u2019s not often I get to review Indonesian death metal, but here\u2019s the debut full-length outing from Septian (vocals). Vebri (guitar), Uyuasi (bass) and Yudi (drums). Bloodfed started out in 2021 and released a three-track demo. The songs from that release all feature here on what is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5973],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-bloodfed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105477","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=105477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105478,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105477\/revisions\/105478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}