{"id":93447,"date":"2022-05-13T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=93447"},"modified":"2022-05-17T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:52:41","slug":"album-review-cartilage-the-deader-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-cartilage-the-deader-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"CARTILAGE – The Deader The Better (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARTILAGE
The Deader The Better<\/strong><\/span>
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\nCreator-Destructor (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Deader The Better<\/em> is San Francisco, California-based Cartilage\u2019s second full-length offering, and comes five years after 2017 debut album Dialect Of The Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Standard death \/ grind is the order of the day here, with \u2018Slaughterday At The Chopping Mall\u2019, \u2018The Deader The Better\u2019 and \u2018I Skin You\u2019 providing the starters, while \u2018Mallet Wielding Maniac\u2019, \u2018Gurgitor\u2019, \u2018Cellar Full Of Stiffs\u2019 and \u2018Axe Scratcher\u2019 are served as the main course, with a dollop of \u2018Gashes To Ashes\u2019, \u2018The Casket Crawler Catastrophe\u2019 and a cover of Impetigo\u2019s \u2018Boneyard\u2019 for dessert.<\/p>\n

Everything is delivered as a short, sharp sickly slurp as the five-piece drifts between chunky death metal and sleazy grind. You\u2019ve heard such goofiness many times previous, but if delivered right it can make for an entertaining and garish experience.<\/p>\n

The obvious Carcass influence is there, wafting like a foul odour off rotten meat as the title track gurgles in cartoon fashion amidst slurry of accessible riffage and other discarded garbage.<\/p>\n

Very much tongue-in-cheek, and thankfully so, Cartilage rattle off numerous comedic horror stories at full throttle, nodding with partially severed head to Exhumed. \u2018I Skin You\u2019 is more hyper hyperbole, with the slurping vocal quacks and frantic percussion all thrown into the melting pot for a cannibal stew. But some may crave the slower, fleshy, more scanned delights of cuts such as \u2018Cellar Full Of Stiffs\u2019 with its mid-tempo thuggery, or further Carcass worship in the deformed flatulence of \u2018Mallet Wielding Maniac\u2019 and \u2018Gashes To Ashes\u2019.<\/p>\n

Of course it\u2019s all very limited, but this is an album that is happy to bask in its own bile. And for added festering fun and freakish frolic of gore, then get yourself on the list for the splatter vinyl release for extra kaleidoscopic horror.<\/p>\n

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

CARTILAGEThe Deader The Better Creator-Destructor (2022)Rating: 7\/10 The Deader The Better is San Francisco, California-based Cartilage\u2019s second full-length offering, and comes five years after 2017 debut album Dialect Of The Dead. Standard death \/ grind is the order of the day here, with \u2018Slaughterday At The Chopping Mall\u2019, \u2018The Deader The Better\u2019 and \u2018I Skin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4794],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-cartilage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93447","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=93447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93449,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93447\/revisions\/93449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}