{"id":105616,"date":"2025-10-21T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105616"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:42:07","slug":"album-review-necrotum-soul-chamber-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-necrotum-soul-chamber-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"NECROTUM – Soul Chamber Harvest (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

NECROTUM
\nSoul Chamber Harvest<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDan\u2019s Crypt (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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With their fourth full-length studio offering in five years, Romanian deathsters Necrotum clog the nostrils with their underground scent on this collection of re-recorded and re-imagined songs from the band\u2019s May The Dead Rise<\/em> demo and Condemned To Burn<\/em> debut album (both originally released in 2020). A new drummer, Yunus Emre, is in tow, and appears alongside lead guitarist Robert Brezean and vocalist, rhythm guitarist and bassist Filip Garlonta.<\/p>\n

Certainly less jagged than last year\u2019s more technical Defleshed Exhumation<\/em> album, Soul Chamber Harvest<\/em> won me over immediately with the morbid thud of \u2018Locked Inside A Coffin\u2019. Dredged straight from the Autopsy lake of doom, \u2018Locked…\u2019 is that mundane yet miserable track that lingers on the skin like cemetery fog. It got to a point where the despairing chimes of the song were on such heavy rotation that I couldn\u2019t fully appreciate the rest of the album. But now, after approximately 12 listens, Soul Chamber Harvest<\/em> is very much in my bloodstream.<\/p>\n

If you like late 80s and early 90s death metal, then I suggest you inhale this one. Built upon the bony rattles of Emre\u2019s drums, particularly the tracks \u2018Reborn In Flames\u2019 and \u2018Fading Salvation\u2019, and the fluid yet jabbing bass lines, all the songs here exhibit such a macabre aura, swirling as distasteful vapours and sinister sea frets. Even with the aggressive blasts \u2013 and there are many (\u2018Reconquered Domain\u2019) \u2013 there\u2019s a gloomy coating to every passage, the bass grinding like an old cart load of bones on a mist-choked cobbled street.<\/p>\n

With the previous opus nodding toward the likes of Nile and Suffocation, Soul Chamber Harvest<\/em> instead regresses, finding great delight in an almost no frills venture that mixes both aggression and gloom (\u2018Afterlife Torment\u2019). Necrotum remains such an underrated force in their chosen field and skinsman Emre is such a positive addition to their sound, thudding away like a caveman on the morbidly executed death thrasher \u2018Internal Scream\u2019. To an extent this outing is a bit of an all-rounder and one which I recommend to anyone who likes understated underground death metal.<\/p>\n

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

NECROTUM Soul Chamber Harvest Dan\u2019s Crypt (2025) Rating: 7\/10 With their fourth full-length studio offering in five years, Romanian deathsters Necrotum clog the nostrils with their underground scent on this collection of re-recorded and re-imagined songs from the band\u2019s May The Dead Rise demo and Condemned To Burn debut album (both originally released in 2020). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-necrotum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105616","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=105616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105617,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105616\/revisions\/105617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}