{"id":69553,"date":"2018-05-04T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=69553"},"modified":"2018-06-03T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T15:18:24","slug":"ep-review-sgt-slime-songs-from-the-sewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-sgt-slime-songs-from-the-sewer\/","title":{"rendered":"SGT. SLIME – Songs From The Sewer EP (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SGT. SLIME
Songs From The Sewer EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sgt. Slime is a Finnish thrash act I know little about apart from the fact that their three releases, including this one, have some of the worst cover art that I\u2019ve ever seen. But onto the music\u2026<\/p>\n

This is some standard crossover crunch that\u2019ll get the mosh pit bubbling nicely as the combo drags us through six snappy tracks, finishing things off with a pointless cover of Toxic Holocaust\u2019s \u2018Nuke The Cross\u2019. Prior to that you get a quintet of solid tunes that bring to mind the likes of Anthrax, S.O.D., D.R.I., Suicidal Tendencies etc., featuring rather childish gang chants and lyrics, and a chugging simplicity that you may have first experienced back in the 80s when this style of toxic mish-mash was the in-thing.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018The Slime Beast\u2019 is a semi-aggressive plodder featuring a formulaic theme; you get the strong humorous stench, the brutish vocal chops and a strong marrying of mid-tempo juddering mixed with pacier, hardcore elements. It\u2019s nothing fancy as we\u2019re ordered to \u201cBow down to the slime beast\u201d<\/em>… although I simply refuse to.<\/p>\n

The two-minute snap of \u2018Motel Murder\u2019 is another generic mosh-up, although the riffs are riddled with contagion as we\u2019re drawn into this sweaty head nodder. The percussion is also sturdy enough to add extra weight before the predictable lash of a higher tempo emerges.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the theme throughout, Sgt. Slime taking us on an enjoyable romp with the likes of \u2018Creatures\u2019 and \u2018Zombies!\u2019; both of which suffer horrendously from a lack of imagination but which in turn are bolstered by their effective trudges. The former is a a sloppy combination of S.O.D. and a more contemporary strain of thrash \/ punk mimicry. It\u2019s not big, it\u2019s not clever, but it\u2019ll please the kids who probably think this beer-soaked, horror-movie obsessed posse are the next best thing. Meanwhile, \u2018Zombies!\u2019 does pretty much sum up the whole sorry, slimy mess as it begins with a Slayer-type fizz until the vocal bursts of Nasu come in. \u201cDon\u2019t look back, you\u2019re under attack\u201d<\/em> he chews, but it\u2019s just your generic speedball of youthful aggression best suited to a drunken night out on the skateboards.<\/p>\n

\u2018Medicate My Brain\u2019 is sandwiched in-between the aforementioned two tracks, and again we\u2019re forced fed the customary crossover chug and lyrics pertaining to madness. The only saving grace here, however, is the fact that the EP is so short, because any longer and I would have found myself foaming at the mouth.<\/p>\n

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

SGT. SLIMESongs From The Sewer EP Self-released (2018)Rating: 5\/10 Sgt. Slime is a Finnish thrash act I know little about apart from the fact that their three releases, including this one, have some of the worst cover art that I\u2019ve ever seen. But onto the music\u2026 This is some standard crossover crunch that\u2019ll get the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-sgt-slime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69553","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=69553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69555,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69553\/revisions\/69555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}