{"id":93155,"date":"2022-03-31T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=93155"},"modified":"2022-04-06T14:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:05:05","slug":"album-review-out-of-the-mouth-of-graves-harbinger-uncerimonious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-out-of-the-mouth-of-graves-harbinger-uncerimonious\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GRAVES – Harbinger Uncerimonious (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GRAVES
Harbinger Uncerimonious<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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As soon as I saw track titles such as \u2018Worship Cyclopean Monolith\u2019 and \u2018Hallucinations, Morphine Phantasms\u2019 I knew this was going to be one of those enveloping, cancerous death metal records boasting blackening dissonance and titanic darkness.<\/p>\n

Featuring members of South Carolina\u2019s Psionic Madness \u2013 namely Justin V\u00f8lus (vocals), Nicholas Turner (lead guitar) and the prolific Jared Moran (rhythm guitar, bass and drums) \u2013 Out Of The Mouth Of Graves is a project that has seemingly emerged from nowhere, like a dormant geyser that\u2019s now shot its vile load.<\/p>\n

Described in a press release as \u201cprogressive and experimental death metal\u201d, Harbinger Uncerimonious<\/em> is a punishing and harrowing expression, akin to being dragged into a cold, clammy cave and ravaged not only by the unforgiving conditions but the weird, bloodthirsty manifestations such a cacophony would surely cause after being exposed to it for too long.<\/p>\n

The album offers seven tracks and a total duration of 25 minutes, but it feels far longer and that\u2019s a compliment to its dragging power. Opener \u2018Nihilistic Visions Of Torment\u2019 sounds like a vomiting vacuum cleaner, a torrid torrent cast from abysmal depths as the trio fuses to form a cascading barrage of ice and slide in one monumental shift of drudgery.<\/p>\n

The downpour is so thick and heavy that any experimentation may initially become lost in the silt. This suffocates within seconds; an abysmal tirade of gurgling, stifling morbidity made all the more loathsome by the deep, chesty vocals.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a gnawing, one-dimensional monster though. A sudden, unexpected tirade of blast beats and brutality emerges and continues into the hideous \u2018Herald Of The Tempest\u2019 where flashes of violent black \/ death exhibit the sheer intense convulsions of the percussion. And that\u2019s how this abomination unravels; slow, thickening oozing merged with drawer, frothing expressions.<\/p>\n

\u2018Worship Cyclopean Monolith\u2019 is a sickening barrage, a rush of frosted, arctic rawness steeped in dissonance, while \u2018Hallucinations, Morphine Phantasms\u2019 provides further smothering, where the theme continues through each relatively short expression, although each segment sprawls like a vast, colossal plateau of freezing hate.<\/p>\n

\u2018Abstraction To Oblivion\u2019 hammers with steaming pistons, where the vocals are projectile vomits amidst further flurries of grim blasting. And the end comes via the toxic \u2018The Void Enveloping\u2019 \u2013 an apt title for such a consuming albeit chaotic slab of chaos and intensity.<\/p>\n

This debut should come with a health warning.<\/p>\n

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

OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GRAVESHarbinger Uncerimonious Self-released (2022)Rating: 7.5\/10 As soon as I saw track titles such as \u2018Worship Cyclopean Monolith\u2019 and \u2018Hallucinations, Morphine Phantasms\u2019 I knew this was going to be one of those enveloping, cancerous death metal records boasting blackening dissonance and titanic darkness. Featuring members of South Carolina\u2019s Psionic Madness \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4765],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-out-of-the-mouth-of-graves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93155","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=93155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93157,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93155\/revisions\/93157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}