{"id":88313,"date":"2021-01-06T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=88313"},"modified":"2021-02-16T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:00:37","slug":"album-review-demoted-envenomed-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-demoted-envenomed-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"DEMOTED – Envenomed Redemption (2021) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEMOTED
Envenomed Redemption<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHostile (2021)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been keeping a beady-eye on this one-man death metal band since last year\u2019s Back To The Grave<\/em> demo which impressed me greatly. Sole member Filip Garlonta has been an extremely busy man, what with the follow-up EP In The Flesh And Bones<\/em> (November 2020) and now this 30-minute debut full-length.<\/p>\n

Romanian death metal is not something I\u2019ve followed as a scene, but Garlonta really does know his chops and this affair certainly stirs the senses.<\/p>\n

After a short instrumental intro we are hit by \u2018Gateway To The Void\u2019, a deep, eye-gouging and very much fusty accessible rumble of guttural vocal prowess and mid-paced message. It\u2019s certainly no frills death metal, but there\u2019s just something so vintage about those melancholic solos and that bellowing, stormy rumble of bass and percussion.<\/p>\n

\u2018Forever Haunting The Earth\u2019 ups the speed, Filip Garlonta taking Demoted\u2019s sound to a death rattle where all instruments gnash with unrelenting pace and bring all manner of influences to mind \u2013 shaking them all up in a pot and spewing them out to result in a familiar yet undeniably catchy tirade of gruesome cacophony.<\/p>\n

Demoted\u2019s sound is so wonderfully organic, bristly with embryonic passages and conjuring graven images, as with the excellent \u2018Back To The Grave\u2019 with its atmospheric intro of cawing crow and sombre church bell clang which give way to doom-laden heaving. Monolithic riffs lope eerily, bleeding into the infectious strains of \u2018Tower Of The Undead\u2019 where Garlonta literally becomes king of the zombies with his drooling vocal slurs. \u2018Tower Of The Undead\u2019 is a favourite of mine for its morbid chugging and that dense, musty groove.<\/p>\n

The title track judders with further suspense, while \u2018Unsanctified\u2019 is equally grisly. On the latter, the percussive thuds are just deadly slaps, with the overall sound being a trip into death metal doldrums, so to speak, and I adore it for its simplistic designs; Filip Garlonta commentating vocally and musically in grotesque manner and conjuring images of foggy graveyards and steaming reanimated corpses.<\/p>\n

The trundle of \u2018Bringer Of The False Light\u2019 emerges creepily from the gloom and quickens its pace like a grave robber hastily clawing at the soil before anyone notices. The instrumental \u2018Perpetual Suffering\u2019 is mere effect, before the impressive cover of Cancer\u2019s \u2018Into The Acid\u2019 kicks in. Again, like so many other releases from bands, I\u2019d have preferred another original tune, but as it stands it rounds off what is a fine, fusty and foul debut.<\/p>\n

Envenomed Redemption<\/em> may be as no frills as a bag of old bones, but it\u2019ll keep on rattling until the dead come knocking. Good, gruesome stuff.<\/p>\n

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

DEMOTEDEnvenomed Redemption Hostile (2021)Rating: 8\/10 I\u2019ve been keeping a beady-eye on this one-man death metal band since last year\u2019s Back To The Grave demo which impressed me greatly. Sole member Filip Garlonta has been an extremely busy man, what with the follow-up EP In The Flesh And Bones (November 2020) and now this 30-minute debut […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-demoted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88313","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=88313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88315,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88313\/revisions\/88315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}