{"id":72762,"date":"2018-08-31T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=72762"},"modified":"2018-09-19T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:04:05","slug":"album-review-maligner-attraction-to-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-maligner-attraction-to-annihilation\/","title":{"rendered":"MALIGNER – Attraction To Annihilation (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MALIGNER
Attraction To Annihilation<\/strong><\/span>
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\nBlood Harvest (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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And so the Blood Harvest roster spews forth another venomous heavy metal act. This time in the form of Maligner, a trio who come adorned in denim \u2018n\u2019 leather and heavily armed with a debut full-length album sure to not just turn heads, but sever them.<\/p>\n

Maligno (vocals and bass), Aztiak (guitar) and Ertheb Somus-Ra (drums) are from Malm\u00f6, but if you think this opus is going to be riddled with Swedish familiarities then think again because Attraction To Annihilation<\/em> has more in common with the nasty and scathing old school death-thrash outbursts than the expected Stockholm sound mimicry.<\/p>\n

Attraction To Annihilation<\/em> comes all guns blazing, spraying bullets everywhere as the rampant trio devastates and pummels with high speed assaults that come across as a destructive mix of Possessed, Teutonic flares, Dark Angel, later Death, blackened death-cum-thrash, and just about anything else that fizzes, boils and rages within such spectrums.<\/p>\n

Maligner is a full-throttle act of the modern age, but one fast and furious and not averse to technical flashes. But for the most part this one just rages like hot flaming lava; the main theme being immense thrashy rumbles which veer into death metal streaks.<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t experience the band\u2019s 2016 Demon<\/em> EP then I suggest you just jump headfirst into this pit of sniping, writhing snakes. The album features eight snappy tracks which grumble through sturdy riffing before the frequent sprints cause severe dizziness as \u2018Oath-Bound\u2019 drips into \u2018Lust For Fire\u2019 and then into \u2018Disposable\u2019. The next thing you know 30-minutes of your life have flashed by and you\u2019re left with extreme whiplash from a batch of hostile compositions that are delivered brisk and brash.<\/p>\n

Led by Maligno\u2019s salivating rasps, the threesome are not doing anything out of the ordinary, but within their hectic framework their conniving and spiteful thrash expressions are more than admirable, laced with killer fiery melodies and sizzling magma bass lines, while Ertheb\u2019s drums are hyper blasts of considerable speed and precision.<\/p>\n

One of the shortest tracks on the album is \u2018Salvation\u2019; a bewildering fury that pretty much sums up the energy and anger on the record. This is about as abrupt and demented as it gets \u2013 top notch hellish death \/ thrash with a segment change that batters us with a hard \u2018n\u2019 seething gallop. Meanwhile, \u2018Reign Of Fear\u2019 is delivered with militant precision, almost beginning like a classic Sodom track as a devious solo navigates its way through the debris and the drums charge like a fleet of tanks before the hyper meltdown comes to the fore.<\/p>\n

\u2018Beyond Repair\u2019 follows with menace; this time the speed is reduced to a mid-tempo thunder groove, but technicality becomes present with a jarring rhythm and cogent vocal spits. With this one Maligner remind me of Sadus, only with extra beef. And the frenzy and toxic energy continues with the hasty \u2018Mental Breakdown\u2019, where the trio terrorise our brain cells and ear canals with a blistering array of accelerations that stink of the 80s in certain departments but remain clean and tight in order to adhere to contemporary rules.<\/p>\n

But it all still makes for a blustery listen as closer \u2018Into Oblivion\u2019 comes trudging with arrogance and swagger on a punchy riff and those fully cranked drums. Maligner are stocked with so much ammunition that every strike is deadly, no doubt then that a flurry of frothing thrash fans will become attracted to this spectacle of utter annihilation.<\/p>\n

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

MALIGNERAttraction To Annihilation Blood Harvest (2018)Rating: 8\/10 And so the Blood Harvest roster spews forth another venomous heavy metal act. This time in the form of Maligner, a trio who come adorned in denim \u2018n\u2019 leather and heavily armed with a debut full-length album sure to not just turn heads, but sever them. Maligno (vocals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-maligner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72762","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=72762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72764,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72762\/revisions\/72764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}