{"id":91247,"date":"2021-09-18T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=91247"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:22:44","slug":"ep-review-filtheater-obfuscated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-filtheater-obfuscated\/","title":{"rendered":"FILTHEATER – Obfuscated EP (2021) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

FILTHEATER
Obfuscated EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nVargheist (2021)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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When the opening chords reverberate to announce this new Filtheater EP, I feel like I\u2019ve been suddenly hit over the head by a trash can.<\/p>\n

This three-track release, like all offerings before, is the work of one man, namely K.J. (aka Jared Moran). The Mississippi-based multi-instrumentalist is a creator of chaos who dabbles in unrelenting underground clanking to the point you\u2019ll start thinking you\u2019ve got trouble with your pipe work!<\/p>\n

You won\u2019t hear many releases this year as squalid and uninviting. Opening track \u2018Cadaverment Entanglement\u2019 just vibrates with lo-fi, holocaustic bass prangs, and everything just follows like a clattering mess of garbage thrown out the window onto unstable scaffolding. Call it death metal to make it easier for you, but in reality it\u2019s a nightmarish, tumultuous migraine that judders like a scrap metal truck bereft of a wheel.<\/p>\n

Vocally, it\u2019s just a nasty sneer caught up in a wired web of fibre glass and steel wool, where horrible guitar chords just provide extra layers of mess and nausea.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dripping Despair\u2019 makes things no easier; a hectic, boiling geyser of toxic chemicals vomited forth. It\u2019s not industrial but it does belong in such industrialized horror; a grating mash of evil and grinding basement anarchy, leaving you to question its creators mindset as \u2018The Fog\u2019 completes the tirade with further clanking, clattering terror.<\/p>\n

Obfuscated<\/em> runs short of 14-minutes, but it\u2019s time you won\u2019t get back as you become strangled in this barbed mesh of an EP that takes death metal to farther indecipherable realms where not many fear to tread.<\/p>\n

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

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