{"id":20298,"date":"2014-07-16T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=20298"},"modified":"2014-07-16T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T11:59:08","slug":"ep-review-slaughterday-ravenous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-slaughterday-ravenous\/","title":{"rendered":"SLAUGHTERDAY – Ravenous EP (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SLAUGHTERDAY
Ravenous EP<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"\"
\nFDA Rekotz (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\n\n
<\/td>\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

I really enjoyed the gore-crusted barrage of Slaughterday\u2019s 2013 debut Nightmare Vortex<\/em><\/a>, so it\u2019s nice to relive the nightmare with this four-track EP from the German duo.<\/p>\n

As expected, this is more of the same; horrifying, blood-soaked putridness that combines lashings of horrifying doom-laden riffage with a Swedish twist. It\u2019s nothing new but boy do us disciples of death metal revel in such an orgy of lust, leeches and languid prose.<\/p>\n

And what better way to experience such grim cares than via the opening bludgeoning that is \u2018Ravenous\u2019, a timely reminder to us all that such rancid death metal has not grown too long in the tooth and can still have a snap in its jaws. What works so well here is the band\u2019s ability to fuse a real, grotty slower segment with maniacal speed. It\u2019s Autopsy at one point, then The Ravenous the next, and of course a thrashing piece of Swedish grit. It\u2019s all so unkempt, loose, corrupt and as cloying as a clot recently coughed up by vocalist Bernd Reiners.<\/p>\n

German metal has never sounded so squalid, echoing around its own filth chamber with those sordid solos, volatile riffs of phlegm and percussion wrenched straight from the abattoir. Hell, the band has even enlisted the talents of Swedish artist Jan Pysander Whitney for the cover. And with \u2018Crawling In Secrecy\u2019 the band once again dons its Swedish armband of honour as the droning chords sweep through the soul like a deadly bacteria and Reiners beams with derangement of cold catacombs.<\/p>\n

\u2018Abyss Of Nameless Fear\u2019 boasts more of an apocalyptic nature \u2013 this time the combo opts for a thrashier approach to unleash the demons \u2013 and with a cover of Acheron\u2019s \u2018Ave Satanas\u2019 tying up the loose ends in equally primal fashion, Slaughterday\u2019s latest clump of matted hair, congealed bone and frayed sinew is another we must worship or risk succumbing to the armies of the dead who have been summoned via Reiner\u2019s belching.<\/p>\n

For those of you who like that deathly, dirge-like guitar tone and cannot turn a blind, bloodshot eye to those horizons of gore are no doubt going to don a butcher\u2019s apron and armed with cleaver take to the dungeon and dissect this fly-ridden globule of gore. I can\u2019t wait for the next full-length instalment from a band that just grows on me the more and more I spin their hymns of death. If you\u2019ve not heard Slaughterday then it\u2019s time to join the ceremony.<\/p>\n

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

SLAUGHTERDAYRavenous EP FDA Rekotz (2014)Rating: 8\/10 I really enjoyed the gore-crusted barrage of Slaughterday\u2019s 2013 debut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slaughterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298","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=20298"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20305,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298\/revisions\/20305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}