{"id":93129,"date":"2022-03-10T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=93129"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:07:42","slug":"ep-review-mortuary-ghoul-corpse-exhumation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-mortuary-ghoul-corpse-exhumation\/","title":{"rendered":"MORTUARY GHOUL – Corpse Exhumation EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MORTUARY GHOUL
Corpse Exhumation EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Crawling from out of nowhere (well, the darkest depths of Ohio to be more precise) is Mortuary Ghoul, a rather mysterious one-man band that quite simply trudge through the murky and mulch to provide grisly, horror-obsessed drudgery straight out of the Mortician case files.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Wear Your Face\u2019 is mid-paced, muddy death metal with deep, churning quagmire chugging and low end, guttural vocals. Throw the amps into a tar pit, coat the guitar with compost and blast up the rusty furnace and you\u2019ve Mortuary Drape. This festering heap of sludge death metal does nothing else except trudge dismally into its own swamp of bones.<\/p>\n

\u2018Brain Stew\u2019 follows the same squalid path, a track drenched in gore that chokes on its own bile. Meanwhile, \u2018Brandishing The Chainsaw\u2019 resorts to type, with the fetid marching of all instruments as appealing as a grinding generator in burning heat.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder that the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em> springs to mind. And the listener does get rewarded with some nice, atmospheric movie samples before the drowning trudges embark on another congealed journey.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s all rather one-dimensional, but there\u2019s such a charm to such mid-paced butchery. \u2018Deranged Motherhood Personified\u2019, however, breaks the mould, hammering hard and fast, the vocals almost taking a step back from the gnashing dynamics, while \u2018Sexual Intercorpse\u2019 soon drags us back into the mire before we are finished off with a cover rendition of Mortician\u2019s \u2018Chainsaw Dismemberment\u2019.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve got a spare 20 minutes and fancy some death metal debauchery, then why not put on your Ed Gein t-shirt and lend a severed ear to this pile of mash from the morgue.<\/p>\n

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

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