{"id":21312,"date":"2014-08-24T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=21312"},"modified":"2014-08-24T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T16:53:40","slug":"ep-review-martyrvore-malevolent-desolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-martyrvore-malevolent-desolation\/","title":{"rendered":"MARTYRVORE – Malevolent Desolation EP (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARTYRVORE
Malevolent Desolation EP<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"\"
\nIron Bonehead (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

It\u2019s always nice to hear a record from a band you\u2019ve never heard before, especially when it turns out to be very good. Martyrvore may have a rather awkward sounding name, but if you want to have your ears sliced and diced by a belligerent cacophony then look no further than this 12\u201d mini-album; the band\u2019s first new studio recordings in seven years. <\/p>\n

Formed in New Hampshire back in 2002, Martyrvore is a brutal quintet consisting of members Reaper (vocals), Necrochrist (guitars \/ vocals), Terrorizer (guitars), Hellvomit (bass) and Gemini (drums). With names like that I was expecting a hellish lump of unmusicality, and I wasn\u2019t disappointed. <\/p>\n

These guys are dealers in underground, war-torn satanically blessed death \/ black metal; y\u2019know, the sort of hateful, clanking, belching, rust-bucket of a sound some of us had been accustomed to back in the 1980s when South America was carving out such a hostile hole for such parasites to dwell within. <\/p>\n

Unintelligible, manic vocal burps, a raging foetid sea of twisted riffs and pulsating percussion, and a bass simply used as an axe to flay its victims. With the equally recent Abysmal Lord (Storms Of Unholy Black Mass<\/em> EP) providing similar classes in how to desecrate your local cemetery, Martyrvore have also joined this party of the damned.<\/p>\n

Malevolent Desolation<\/em> enable this barbaric bunch to run through a set of tracks which simply annihilate all in its wake in the form of ultra-fast, fog-drenched and thick-set hymns of the deranged, resulting in such unholy slop as \u2018Masaya\u2019, a track that comes complete with a blackened grindcore twist.<\/p>\n

\u2018Global Annihilation\u2019 must surely be the B-side if ever there was a re-release for Michael Jackson\u2019s \u2018Heal The World\u2019. It\u2019s a track that begins with the sounds of hellish war \u2013 bombs, machine guns, cries of agony \u2013 before resorting to a minute or so of stuffy, lo-fi aggression that eventually reduces itself to a pile of charred bones, such is its impure mayhem. That\u2019s what this five-piece is all about; utter mayhem spewed forth from the unrepentant instruments of hell. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a battering ram in the form of every track where the drums act as some chomping, chopping mechanical device set on eating up the ground and any human waste. With a strong lean towards the 80s and early 90s feel for obscure-sounding nightmares, this is surely another of those festering pits of noise you\u2019ll be adding to your collection, especially if you\u2019re a Bon Jovi fan!<\/p>\n

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

MARTYRVOREMalevolent Desolation EP Iron Bonehead (2014)Rating: 8\/10 It\u2019s always nice to hear a record from a band you\u2019ve never heard before, especially when it turns out to be very good. Martyrvore may have a rather awkward sounding name, but if you want to have your ears sliced and diced by a belligerent cacophony then look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-martyrvore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312","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=21312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21316,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions\/21316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}