{"id":22806,"date":"2014-09-26T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=22806"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T23:28:57","slug":"album-review-thornafire-magnaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-thornafire-magnaa\/","title":{"rendered":"THORNAFIRE – Magnaa (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

THORNAFIRE
Magnaa<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFDA Rekotz (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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FDA Rekotz is another record label that rarely puts a foot wrong, so it\u2019s no surprise then that Thornafire\u2019s latest descent into darkness is another veritable feast of the vicious, the volatile and the volcanic.<\/p>\n

Magnaa<\/em> is the fourth episode in the career of this Chilean extreme metal act which formed in 1998. Their blasphemous brand of death metal has never once let up, and with each and every chapter in their discography they\u2019ve slayed victims with apparent ease by wave of frothing vocal sneers, belligerent percussion and a frenzy of slamming, bestial guitars.<\/p>\n

I was impressed by their last opus, 2012\u2019s Eclipse Nox Coagula<\/em>, and wasn\u2019t sure that such a feeding frenzy could be bettered, but they\u2019ve delivered once again with another meaty package of fast-paced evil and eye-gouging brutality.<\/p>\n

After a brief introduction, \u2018La Sierpe\u2019 comes hurtling out of its lair like an animal that has been caged and fuelled by its thirst for blood. With occasional slower segments to add to the brooding intensity, Thornafire adds extra chunks of speed and weight to mix with the already evident arrogant chaos and wickedness, bolstered by vocalist Christian Argando\u00f1a\u2019s bass and Victor Mac-Namara\u2019s guitar, but above all Nikko Pagani\u2019s truly remarkable percussion which rattles to the point of uncontrollable viciousness. The trio are masters of vomiting out perverse structures, flexing themselves with nasty progression amidst the more recognisable strains of extreme metal battering to the point that by the midway stage \u2018La Sierpe\u2019 has quite literally removed all bones from the body and left the carcass a squelching mass of flesh.<\/p>\n

This is some truly twisted and sporadically technical death metal that revels in its hatred and yet with such swollen negative emotion channels it through its war torn instruments. Whether it\u2019s the horrendous jarring nature of \u2018Corvus Corax\u2019 with its cold, bleak introductory segments or the rampant, disjointed slaying machine that is \u2018Sacrificial Catabsis\u2019 it could well be argued that Thornafire has actually come up with something just a tad different within the death metal genre; supplying constant threats via the raging guitar menace and by mixing black streaks of complexity and cavorting with utter perversity riff wise and in its percussive techniques.<\/p>\n

While never bewildering, Magnaa<\/em> is an album of many levels; far reaching into the dynamics of contemporary design and yet within each grim plateau descending into darker depths of Satan\u2019s realm. Of all these hammerings those more noteworthy than others have to be the pummelling \u2018Vortex de Sileo\u2019, where Cristian Argando\u00f1a\u2019s vocals sound something akin to a demon swallowing rusty nails, and the peculiar bass lead traditional metal gallop of \u2018Scorching Iron Thorns\u2019 (featuring former drummer Juan Pablo Donoso), which is a joy to behold; an impure wiry mesh of punked up blackness mixed with blast beat drums and a frightening collision of guitar, bass and vocal.<\/p>\n

Thornafire has created another hideous piece of charcoaled extreme metal and it\u2019s the sort of repugnant racket that, believe it or not, has breathed new life into the death metal scene. It doesn\u2019t care for nostalgia or overt technology; instead, it\u2019s a beast so natural in its evil that one cannot help be severely lacerated by the time \u2018Espiritual Lid Paranoia\u2019 has crashed and leaked into the orchestral finale of the outro. Magnaa<\/em> will not leave you gagging for more, because there will be no more of you left.<\/p>\n

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

THORNAFIREMagnaa FDA Rekotz (2014)Rating: 9\/10 FDA Rekotz is another record label that rarely puts a foot wrong, so it\u2019s no surprise then that Thornafire\u2019s latest descent into darkness is another veritable feast of the vicious, the volatile and the volcanic. Magnaa is the fourth episode in the career of this Chilean extreme metal act which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-thornafire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806","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=22806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22811,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806\/revisions\/22811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}