{"id":92675,"date":"2022-01-14T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=92675"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:59:32","slug":"album-review-convulsive-the-grotesquery-ruins-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-convulsive-the-grotesquery-ruins-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"CONVULSIVE – The Grotesquery Ruins Of Death (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CONVULSIVE
The Grotesquery Ruins Of Death<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Born out of Brazil\u2019s fetid depths just two years ago, death metal brigade Convulsive is responsible for some of the most putrid noise I\u2019ve heard for some time. Death metal is arguably the healthiest genre at the moment and it\u2019s not easy for bands to get recognized, but I\u2019ll eat my intestines if this debut heap of rotting flesh doesn\u2019t get some praise.<\/p>\n

Since their inception Convulsive has released two singles and a demo, so I was keen to explore the stinking layers of this nine-track platter.<\/p>\n

Now, this is some thick, murky death metal with a truly rotten, old school sound. From the off with opener \u2018Sickened Rituals Of Flesh And Pus\u2019 there\u2019s that horrid Autopsy-styled death rattle of grisly bass, stuffy drum and a guitar tone that just gnaws on the bone. The faster blasts are grim furnaces led by billowing, chesty vocal coughs, and at slower passages the band just drags itself through cesspools of sick.<\/p>\n

Everything about this record is weighty, daubed in gore and fog-ridden. The opening track just sets you up before dragging you into its stomach of festering riffs and bludgeoning outbursts.<\/p>\n

The creeping menace of \u2018Nights Of Terror\u2019 brings a doomy respite from what is essentially an album of mostly fast tracks. Even so, the thickening, pea-soup pace soon rises a majority of tracks, from \u2018Island Of The Last Zombies\u2019 to \u2018Zombie Flesh Eaters\u2019 to even more zombiefied zombieness with \u2018Plague Of Zombies\u2019 gnashing with clanking ferocity.<\/p>\n

\u2018Incubo\u2019 is equally nasty and frenetic \u2013 the percussion is hostile and damp, matched by the thundering bass lines. For me though the band is at it\u2019s most potent on closer \u2018Wurdulak\u2019; a pustulous doom-drenched slog that really drags this album into the most filthy of pits. It\u2019s a punishing, drowning way to end a debut album, and if you\u2019re not gasping for air by the climax then you don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

Convulsive deserves to make great waves amongst the slurry of the death metal scene.<\/p>\n

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

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