{"id":93170,"date":"2022-04-01T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=93170"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:43:04","slug":"ep-review-chasmdweller-festering-in-aural-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-chasmdweller-festering-in-aural-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"CHASMDWELLER – Festering In Aural Trauma EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHASMDWELLER
Festering In Aural Trauma EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nLife After Death (2022)<\/span>
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Here\u2019s the latest release from this prolific Toronto, Ontario-based death metal act, and as expected it\u2019s another rank heap of mouldy, doom-infused grimness.<\/p>\n

This new scrap yard of filth is only 25 minutes long but the four slabs on offer do enough to quench the thirst. And from the off it\u2019s the double-click drums that wrench the heart from the chest, and those vile, phlegm-ridden coughs just cry out for a decongestant.<\/p>\n

Chasmdweller partake in pacier flurries for the most part, although these do at times blur into one blubbery mesh of brutality.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Divine Portals\u2019 sets the tone, wading fast through squalid, congealed pools of sick. However, the title track speeds things up to the point of nihilist hammering and freezing wind tunnel blizzards of shed skin. It\u2019s pounding, unrelenting and flesh flaying, combing familiar death metal wastes with flashes of Floridian turmoil laced with Finnish ghoulish delight and a lot in between.<\/p>\n

\u2018Echo Into Nothingness\u2019 is equally pulverising \u2013 extreme death metal whereby every instrument is at full throttle. Meanwhile, \u2018Pantheon Of Psychotic Deities\u2019 is even more torrential \u2013 a hyper hammer attack where the vocals shift rapidly from guttural gurgles to maniacal squeaks.<\/p>\n

Chasmdweller\u2019s latest bout of hellish hostility is not technical or flashy, but it batters the listener to a bloody pulp within minutes. Each wave of assault at times feels repetitive but punishing nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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

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