{"id":23007,"date":"2014-04-16T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=23007"},"modified":"2015-01-10T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T17:42:06","slug":"album-review-funest-desecrating-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-funest-desecrating-obscurity\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNEST – Desecrating Obscurity (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

FUNEST
Desecrating Obscurity<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMemento Mori (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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How on earth can an Italian band sound so Swedish? And secondly, how can one desecrate obscurity? Okay, so I\u2019m being petty here, but there\u2019s no doubting Funest\u2019s obsession with that classic Swedish death metal sound; the riffs are akin to an out of control heavyweight chainsaw. In fact, just one listen to this debut album and you\u2019d be thinking you\u2019d stepped into 1991, such is the mouldy textures of this blasphemous project.<\/p>\n

Funest have only been around since 2012, but already they\u2019ve mastered the unholy, blood-congealed art of linking together buzz-saw riffs, chesty vocals and sickening melody with an Autopsy-styled horror.<\/p>\n

I actually like this 12-track lump of gristle because despite its lack of originality it harbours such a stuffy, funereal quality and appears as a genuine resurrection of a style of extreme metal that I just cannot get enough of. Do we really need another band of this ilk though? Well, in some instances yes, if the concoction is correct. After all, one may as well slap on those old Entombed albums rather than listen to this, but I\u2019ve always got time for a vomit-spattered piece of vinyl when it\u2019s this rotten.<\/p>\n

Those extreme metal aficionados among you may be interested to know that Johan Jansson (Interment, Dellamorte, Centinex, Demonical) provides guest vocals on two tracks, the best of these being the terrific \u2018Fornicate The Deceased\u2019 which rumbles, rattles and throws discarded limbs at you like merry old Entombed. The riff is generic but frothingly killer, while the drums pound the life out of the hapless decapitated heads which have been assembled to form a kit.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fornicate The Deceased\u2019 is the pivotal track on the album; backing up the mid-section and featuring an Autopsy-style of gore, guts and horror in the solo department. But it doesn\u2019t matter what cyst you extract from this gruesome opus, as each one will provide you with the same blood-clotted joy you first experienced when you heard the likes of Grave, Unleashed, Dismember and Massacre all those foetid years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cNausea reigns\u201d<\/em> vomits M. on the ghoulish doom-laden echoes of \u2018Buried And Forsaken\u2019 amid a torrential wail of clammy riffs and soiled percussion, and the vocalist is equally joyful on the rancid guffaw of \u2018Marching On Dead Angels\u2019 and my favourite disemboweller \u2018Catacomb Torture (Mutilator From The Grave)\u2019 in which he gurgles, \u201cCut his throat, Rape his sluts, Cut his tongue, Burn his cross\u201d<\/em> in lively fashion.<\/p>\n

Desecrating Obscurity<\/em> is a simple nod to the death metal old school and doesn\u2019t try to be anything else. So, for a sincere trip into the realms of decay why not grab yourself a severed head and bang the same blood-soaked drum as these demented disciples of death metal.<\/p>\n

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

FUNESTDesecrating Obscurity Memento Mori (2014)Rating: 7.5\/10 How on earth can an Italian band sound so Swedish? And secondly, how can one desecrate obscurity? Okay, so I\u2019m being petty here, but there\u2019s no doubting Funest\u2019s obsession with that classic Swedish death metal sound; the riffs are akin to an out of control heavyweight chainsaw. In fact, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-funest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007","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=23007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23010,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions\/23010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}