{"id":106255,"date":"2026-09-25T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=106255"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:25:38","slug":"album-review-wharflurch-mycodeath-and-rebirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-wharflurch-mycodeath-and-rebirth\/","title":{"rendered":"WHARFLURCH – Mycodeath And Rebirth In The Outer Clusters (2026) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHARFLURCH
\nMycodeath And Rebirth In The Outer Clusters<\/strong><\/span>
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\nPersonal \/ Gurgling Gore \/ Dawnbreed (2026)<\/span>
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s time to take another hallucinogenic of horror as those kaleidoscopic terrors from Florida Wharflurch lower their vile veil.<\/p>\n

If you have steel lungs then you might just be able to cope with the latest fumes this creepy outfit spews forth. As expected it\u2019s the usual batch of psychedelics you need to inhale; Wharflurch existing in a realm of purple toxic mushrooms and other fusty fungus. With each squalid riff a plume of mould spores are sent into the atmosphere, pustular particles disturbed by those horrid percussive blasts and salivating vocal emissions.<\/p>\n

The landscape here is forever tarred in Technicolor vomit, an inhospitable domain layered with distorted ghoulish gardens and miasmic blurred boundaries. Wharflurch is that bad everlasting trip where nightmarish illusion seamlessly blends with a reality so disturbing so as to leave the nastiest residue at the back of the throat. Case in point, \u2018Death Toll Horror\u2019, delivered as a series of monolithic slaps which barely trudge through festering wastes of bile. The guys create their hellish landscape of multicoloured morbidity where thunder claps of doom vibrate and clash with colossal grinds of gaudy gore.<\/p>\n

\u2018Forgotten Temple\u2019 churns like a sludgy dense cauldron, the toiling bass operating within a porridge of congealed ectoplasm and ejaculate. It\u2019s all so gloopy as the glutinous \u2018Dimensional Parasite\u2019 chugs through stinking swamps of pus, the only force to infiltrate the vomit being the hideous gasps of a vocalist suffocated by his own chest cavity. Meanwhile, \u2018Revelation Ov The Spore Lords\u2019 epitomises the fetid nature of Wharflurch\u2019s wholesome yet sickly sound; a grim wall of slime dripping into sodden piles of rainbow coloured mould which bubbles like some volcanic geyser.<\/p>\n

The riffs on this album exist more as bloody pulverising hammers that batter humid walls coated in sewage. A grim world of ear-splitting echoes awaits then consumes as the intrepid audience is force-fed a sickening diet of the slithering \u2018The Heaving Orbs\u2019 and doom-laden mulch in the form of \u2018Headless God\u2019. \u2018Mycodeath And Rebirth \/ Awakening The Emissary\u2019 is a mere soundscape of weird whispers and almost serene swirls, a come down if you wish from the horrors that is stirred and awoken. I envisage uneven, psychedelic plateaus of spewing turbulent columns drizzled by acidic, manky smelling clouds of decay, all swept continually by those foul encompassing riffs. Welcome to the void of the shrooms of doom.<\/p>\n

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

WHARFLURCH Mycodeath And Rebirth In The Outer Clusters Personal \/ Gurgling Gore \/ Dawnbreed (2026) Rating: 8.5\/10 It\u2019s time to take another hallucinogenic of horror as those kaleidoscopic terrors from Florida Wharflurch lower their vile veil. If you have steel lungs then you might just be able to cope with the latest fumes this creepy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-wharflurch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106255","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=106255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106256,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106255\/revisions\/106256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}