{"id":88852,"date":"2021-03-19T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=88852"},"modified":"2021-03-25T18:49:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:49:20","slug":"album-review-reaper-the-atonality-of-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-reaper-the-atonality-of-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"REAPER – The Atonality Of Flesh (2021) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

REAPER
The Atonality Of Flesh<\/strong><\/span>
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\nIron Bonehead Productions (2021)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Atonality Of Flesh<\/em> is Reaper\u2019s second full-length studio album, and I\u2019ve been waiting for this bomb to drop for a while, having been a huge fan of this Swedish duo since their 2018 demo Ravenous Storm Of Piss<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Embarking upon ghastly black \/ speed adventures straight from the cold crypts of Hell, Reaper isn\u2019t out to reinvent the wheel. Instead, they rip it off the vehicle and throw the tyre onto the fire with impure Bathory grimness produced straight from tin-can city.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Dogs Of The Crumbled Firmanent\u2019 is a blistering hell crash of percussive fury and mayhemic destruction, mixed with spiteful vocal spits and blizzards of nastiness. Admittedly, Reaper does nothing new and without the clanking stuffy heyday of Bathory and black metal first waves this stuff wouldn\u2019t exist, but I\u2019m so glad that it does \u2013 the gruesome twosome constructing fragile walls of scintillating speed and blackened gnarliness.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Sweetness Of The Wound\u2019 is volatile and vicious, with the instruments a mesh of barbaric sickness and rust-coated recklessness. And that\u2019s how the record flows \u2013 fast-flowing streams of piss and blood channelled into fiery pits of Hades.<\/p>\n

\u2018Saturn Devours\u2019 is one of my personal favourites on offer, with its horrid guitar tone that blisters and splinters bones fragments producing a wailing wall of chaos and cacophony. Meanwhile, \u2018Piss, Bile And Violence\u2019 (why didn\u2019t they call the album this?) is typically rank in its violent thrashing, with the vocals the usual scratchy snarls of derision and mockery wrenched from Quorthon Seth\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n

At six-minutes, \u2018Piss, Bile And Violence\u2019 is maybe a tad too long. In fact, the whole album at just under 40-minutes could\u2019ve done with being ten-minutes shorter just to give it a snappier, more abrupt feel, but one can\u2019t argue with feisty delights such as \u2018Come Nature, Come Cruelty, Come Death\u2019 with its furnace punk rawness.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, \u2018Architecture Of The Flame\u2019 is a harrowing rust-bucket brim with wailing guitars and hammering drum pistons \u2013 the black smoke billows greatly on this tune. And such hammering of horns continues with the sizzling \u2018Thru With You\u2019 and the caustic vibrations of \u2018Rise Epimetheus\u2019. The latter is surely the album\u2019s slowest yet most evil moment, where the vocals ooze with black menace to a doomy trudge of goblin shit as the guitars and drums rattle with equal nuisance.<\/p>\n

\u2018Rise Epimetheus\u2019 is the track that gets me craving Reaper at their doomiest, even if just for the sake of variety, so I hope with future releases they bring more slower passages of morbidity to the table. But for now, the band\u2019s second opus still whizzes by at a frenzy and so several listens are required in order to soak up the scathing blasphemy.<\/p>\n

I knew what was coming with The Atonality Of Flesh<\/em>, but it certainly solidifies Reaper\u2019s place in the anarchic archaic halls of black thrash nastiness, so I\u2019ll be very interested to see where the next album takes them\u2026 as more of the same may just not be enough.<\/p>\n

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

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