{"id":71846,"date":"2018-08-02T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=71846"},"modified":"2018-08-20T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T17:19:20","slug":"album-review-ravens-creed-get-killed-or-try-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-ravens-creed-get-killed-or-try-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"RAVENS CREED – Get Killed Or Try Dying (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAVENS CREED
Get Killed Or Try Dying<\/strong><\/span>
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\nXtreem Music (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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London, England-based death metal party Ravens Creed have been in existence since 2006 and have coughed up a batch of steadfast records; three of which have merged during a particularly prolific time from 2012 until now.<\/p>\n

Get Killed Or Try Dying<\/em> is a rather snappy affair in that all of the songs are under three-minutes, and so in a sense I do feel a bit unfulfilled by 13-tracks with a total duration of under 30-minutes. But if you like ravenous, frothing and fast-paced death metal in the vein of, say, Master, then you do need this album in your life.<\/p>\n

These guys don\u2019t hang about; the frantic axe attack of Steve Watson is the key here as he treats us to numerous cutting throwback riffs of trudging menace and aggression. From the off with \u2018Intro-Unrelenting Supremacy\u2019 we have a really grisly tone, the band supplying thrashy-death from the early to mid 80s propelled further by the throaty gasps of Al Osta, who once spent time with Cerebral Fix.<\/p>\n

Osata\u2019s tone is infectious and always snarling and intimidating, but all the way through this record one gets a real scene of old school sincerity as they blaze through \u2018Dead Bird On Winchester Street\u2019, the grotesque slog of \u2018Dead On A Rival\u2019, and the gore-soaked \u2018Off With Their Legs\u2019 which comes chugging in with such menace that I had to reach for a spare pair of underwear.<\/p>\n

While the tracks are short, one feels as if they\u2019ve been transported to a wondrous time for the death metal era as Ravens Creed (in spite of their rather un-death metal moniker) brings to the table a veritable feast of meaty chunks to gorge on.<\/p>\n

Forget all the Swedish mimics, this one rattles with such a quality as elements of crust, punk and thrash are straddled by a huge fusty death metal odour; the putrid posse choking their way through the title track as the clanking bass of Rod Boston billows black smoke while hinting at a caustic Venom tone. Meanwhile, \u2018Rats Beneath Our Feet\u2019 and \u2018Remember The Hammer\u2019 showcase the fantastic drum work of Jay Graham as the band embarks on a punked-up Venom-meets-Hellhammer style of the drunken grotesque.<\/p>\n

Fuck, this is some seriously catchy yet nasty crap. The blow of \u2018Hymn & Hearse\u2019 supplies a satanic Anthrax vibe in the drudgery of guitar, while \u2018Sound Of Sirens\u2019 begins with a horrid and squalid crust grind; the band nodding towards the likes of Amebix and then Death Strike as the assaults of sleaze and sludge marry up to create an onslaught of grinding death-thrash.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Trauma Of Being Hunted\u2019 sums up this nasty blitzkrieg, and thank the lord it\u2019s a short and tetchy record; the songs benefiting from such irritable structures and bad-tempered instrumentation. Get Killed Or Try Dying<\/em> revels in its fornications with the pungent ghosts of death metal\u2019s past, and remains all the more vehement and abhorrent for it.<\/p>\n

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

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