{"id":22784,"date":"2014-10-31T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=22784"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T23:08:19","slug":"album-review-morti-viventi-the-day-the-dead-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-morti-viventi-the-day-the-dead-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00d6RTI VIVENTI – The Day The Dead Returned… (2015) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

M\u00d6RTI VIVENTI
The Day The Dead Returned…<\/strong><\/span>
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\nUKEM (2015)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lincolnshire was the last place I expected the latest thrash assault to come from, but indeed it has and it\u2019s all down to one man; Adrian \u201cAidy\u201d J. Heathershaw, who has created one merciless juggernaut. Indeed, while this may be a case of UK thrash-by-numbers, Heathershaw clearly has enough fire in his belly to make the songs stick in the head long after the needle has lifted.<\/p>\n

The Day The Dead Returned…<\/em> boasts seven solid and bloody noisy tracks which roll over you like a bulldozer intent on laying to waste the rising corpses he speaks of.<\/p>\n

As opener \u2018Hell On Earth\u2019 comes barging its way through we\u2019re immediately notified that this is going to be a pulverising slab of no frills thrash metal built upon a foundation of bruising riffs, stereotypical yet lethal vocal sneers and lyrics which have no need to be subtle. \u201cDawn of the apocalypse, Birth of a child marked 6-66, Random killings, spreading madness and rage, Global terror consumes, our fucking world going insane\u201d<\/em>, barks Heathershaw as he\u2019s most certainly pissed off about the carnage of the earth, and it\u2019s all played out to a soundtrack of hammering percussion and relentless explosions of thrash. \u201cGod won\u2019t save you, Satan rules you\u201d<\/em> he smirks, and I believe him because by the time the track has finished you\u2019ll be left picking up your brains from the floor… unless of course the undead has already feasted upon them.<\/p>\n

And the battery keeps on coming. However, the only glitch for me is that some of the cuts are a tad too long, because while they showcase a maturity and confidence, the seven-minute title track and the 13-minute instrumental \u2018The Arrival Of The Anti-God\u2019 could have benefited from being trimmed. In fact, all of the tracks offered clock in at over four-and-a-half minutes, but one has to love the pummelling action of \u2018Whorehouse Of The Undead\u2019 which is delivered in old school fashion without resorting to overt comedy, while another beefy number of note is the six-minute \u2018Spawn Of Another Kind\u2019. However, of the seven cuts I\u2019m more tempted by the seething \u2018Maniac \/ Face The Shape\u2019 and closing anthem \u2018Thrash Or Die\u2019 which seems to be the sort of track we\u2019ve become accustomed to from contemporary thrash acts. But one cannot deny the fury of this debut album, and for what it lacks in originality it most certainly makes up for in punch.<\/p>\n

I sense that Heathershaw has no care for being original, and as the waves of speed and brutality come thick and fast I\u2019m impressed by the obstinacy and left with the words from \u2018Thrash Or Die\u2019 ringing through my ears long after this chapter has been reduced to rubble… \u201cIgnorant fuckers we’ll kill \u2019em all, Immortal our legions never fall\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

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