{"id":105607,"date":"2025-10-10T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105607"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:13:53","slug":"album-review-vile-apparition-malignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-vile-apparition-malignity\/","title":{"rendered":"VILE APPARITION – Malignity (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

VILE APPARITION
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\nDark Descent \/ Me Saco Un Ojo (2025)<\/span>
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Very much anchoring themselves to a mid-to-late 90s death metal aesthetic, Melbourne, Australia-based Vile Apparition conjures their full-length sophomore Malignity<\/em>. This is one of those surprisingly vibrant extreme metal albums which literally hammers from the off to the very end.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thankful it\u2019s relatively short at 34 minutes because some of the riffs gouge the eyes out and as you\u2019re left wandering blind you then have to fend off the pummelling rhythms of the percussion and bass. However, the biggest attraction here is the melodies. At times you think a blazing solo is going to melt into a traditional metal passage, like on \u2018A Canvas Of Corpses\u2019, but the album is littered with such sublime scenarios.<\/p>\n

There are moments of intricacy too, with the likes of \u2018Thriving On Disease\u2019 providing some interesting angles amidst the bluster. Such flashes create an almost schizophrenic backbone whereby riffs deviously thrash before being punctured by a pinched chord. It\u2019s with songs like \u2018Emulsifying Fleshpress\u2019 that Vile Apparition swerves toward a tech-death style but without over-reaching the parameters.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no blinding complexity as such, just clever barbaric pulverisation. High levels of savagery are implemented as Vile Apparition gnashes at the sinews, snapping away feverishly but without embellishing much of an atmosphere. The highs are many and the losses are few, but in such a fiercely contested genre of swamp gloom and ghoulish doom, I don\u2019t see Malignity<\/em> as being on heavy rotation.<\/p>\n

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

VILE APPARITION Malignity Dark Descent \/ Me Saco Un Ojo (2025) Rating: 7.5\/10 Very much anchoring themselves to a mid-to-late 90s death metal aesthetic, Melbourne, Australia-based Vile Apparition conjures their full-length sophomore Malignity. This is one of those surprisingly vibrant extreme metal albums which literally hammers from the off to the very end. I\u2019m thankful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-vile-apparition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105607","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=105607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105608,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105607\/revisions\/105608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}