{"id":105727,"date":"2025-12-12T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105727"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:24:47","slug":"album-review-lust-of-decay-entombed-in-sewage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-lust-of-decay-entombed-in-sewage\/","title":{"rendered":"LUST OF DECAY – Entombed In Sewage (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUST OF DECAY
\nEntombed In Sewage<\/strong><\/span>
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\nComatose (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 5.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Twenty-five years in the business and North Carolina\u2019s grisly deathsters Lust Of Decay finally gets round to issuing a long-awaited fourth full-length album, coming 19 years after last slab Purity Through Dismemberment<\/em>. Okay, there have been a few hiatuses throughout the band\u2019s career, but the inactivity has resulted in a formidable return.<\/p>\n

If you like extreme death metal then Entombed In Sewage<\/em> will turn your ear canals inside out. But for me, this is an acquired taste, a torrential battering ram of head-splitting percussion, organ twisting axework and gargled vocals which sound as if vocalist Jay Barnes has been chewing and swallowing staples.<\/p>\n

\u2018Nourishing The Swine\u2019 was the single to announce the return, a brutal concoction of the clinical and the chaotic as drummer Jordan Varela rabidly smashes his kit. The bludgeoning is uninviting for anyone not prepared for such bruising dynamics. And so the theme is set, an unfiltered array of aggressive death metal bereft of swampiness in spite of its title. Throw this back in the late 90s melting pot and it wouldn\u2019t seem out of place as \u2018Fetal Contamination Process\u2019 chugs with a mid-range malevolence. The vocals, though, do test my patience, bordering on a chewy goregrind aesthetic which is rarely pleasing.<\/p>\n

There are still some strong grooves offered musically throughout, particularly the vicious sniping of \u2018Order 66\u2019 which is a relentless tirade of brutal death metal. However, a lot of the album seems to blur into one and the novelty sort of wears off after opener \u2018Parasitic Exsanguination\u2019. The ridiculously titled \u2018Rusty Razor Rimjob\u2019 features a solid guitar tone, and there\u2019s plenty more spewed vocals over the choppy riffage. A bit more grime on the guitars wouldn\u2019t have gone amiss throughout because they just feel too generic and safe sometimes, but Entombed In Sewage<\/em> will certainly please long term fans of the band.<\/p>\n

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

LUST OF DECAY Entombed In Sewage Comatose (2025) Rating: 5.5\/10 Twenty-five years in the business and North Carolina\u2019s grisly deathsters Lust Of Decay finally gets round to issuing a long-awaited fourth full-length album, coming 19 years after last slab Purity Through Dismemberment. Okay, there have been a few hiatuses throughout the band\u2019s career, but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-lust-of-decay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105727","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=105727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105728,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105727\/revisions\/105728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}