{"id":105531,"date":"2025-10-01T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105531"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:50:44","slug":"ep-review-umulamahri-learning-the-secrets-of-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-umulamahri-learning-the-secrets-of-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"UMULAMAHRI – Learning The Secrets Of Acid EP (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

UMULAMAHRI
\nLearning The Secrets Of Acid EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nOrdovician (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I assume the weird cover art aids the experience as this brand spanking new U.S. avant-garde death metal act issues its debut EP. Shrouded in mystery, Learning The Secrets Of Acid<\/em> is the creation of Doug Moore (vocals; Pyrrhon \/ Seputus \/ Glorious Depravity \/ Weeping Sores) and Andrew Hawkins (guitar, synth and samples; Baring Teeth), a duo which sets about twisting and bending the boundaries of the genre. Five tracks are presented, all of which boast that archetypal cavernous sound while maintaining levels of unpredictability within the gloom.<\/p>\n

Dripping with both atmosphere and slimy mould, opening song \u2018Rot Shall Rule The Oily Voids\u2019 hammers in hideous fashion while from within the tirade the chesty growls emanate as a primeval obscure force. Certainly occupying the doomier side of the death metal genre, Umulamahri writhe in their own fetid discharge, the slithering tumult an anomalous amalgamation of oily, recoiling riffs and percussive blows of ancient skulls on wet black stone.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bursting With Life\u2019s True Fruit\u2019 clatters with similarly horrifying percussion as if the gates of Hell are caught in a toxic ash storm. Distant clangs and unnerving blusters merge into a Carcass-styled slop yet with less gore and more esoteric nocturnal clambering. Barrages of aggression are formed as vast cold walls which are awash with condensation, before slower, ethereal death rattles force you to constantly peer over your shoulder in fear of some creeping slithering dread.<\/p>\n

\u2018VVVVRMS\u2019 is more of an uncanny experimental interlude with a spine of stark kicking drum and shadows of paranoia. \u2018Orifice Invocation\u2019 follows, further dissonant and distance clangs approach before you\u2019re dragged, once again, into a furnace of gnashing riffs and chesty pukes. The finale of \u2018Leaked Photo Of Heaven\u2019 ups the nightmarish pulverising, sounding like a washing machine operating of its own possessed accord before slowing back into a churning cesspool.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t advise anyone taking acid in their life, especially with Umulamahri gurgling away in the background. A caustic and chaotic casserole if ever there was such a thing.<\/p>\n

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

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