{"id":93499,"date":"2022-05-01T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=93499"},"modified":"2022-05-23T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T13:54:51","slug":"ep-review-leprophiliac-slimebath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-leprophiliac-slimebath\/","title":{"rendered":"LEPROPHILIAC – Slimebath EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEPROPHILIAC
Slimebath EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRescued From Life (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Be warned, the Spanish sickos are back! Crawling from their bloodstained bathtub, Leprophiliac oozes across the pus-spattered floor, drags you out of bed and chews you to death, bit by bit.<\/p>\n

Slimebath<\/em> is another gross descent formed of gouging riffs of misery, slurping hungry bass lines, psychotic drum slaps and vocals from the cess-pit. In macabre reality only the likes of Sequestrum and Pharmacist belong in the same septic tank as these ghouls.<\/p>\n

Feel the weight of the shocking front cover image on the tongue and attempt to swallow this heap of bile down in anticipation of its foul presence colliding with and cording the innards which you\u2019ll cough up in great, blubbery piles.<\/p>\n

Leprophiliac is just a pile of congealed muck. All five tracks on this EP twitch like a spasming cadaver suffering the rigours of a hammer attack. Only Leprophiliac kill slowly, grinding you into mincemeat as each squalid chug tightens its hold until your sorry carcass floats then bursts, showering the walls in filth.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Tameshigiri\u2019 just stinks, revelling in its own foul slurry as the percussion tumbles like a bucket of bones cast into bloodied mud. The grind, as always, hints at old Carcass and those putrid goregrind abominations, with the utterly miserable chugging drawing you in to its pit of pity and disgust.<\/p>\n

\u2018Under The Swarm\u2019 kicks in with punky drum tirade and equally rattling dynamics, and this is about as \u201cupbeat\u201d as these maniacs get, showcasing a punky hardcore tone harkening back to a late 80s UK scene vibe straight from the \u2018Hardcore Holocaust\u2019 days. The track maintains its pace in spite of the grisly slower vocal pokes.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s the utterly vile \u2018Children Of The Leatherface\u2019 which proves why these guys are masters of their trade. Again, there\u2019s that hideous, gnawing chug, with the bubbling bass, the dank percussion and the air of cloying, dusty menace. The track is barely two minutes long, but its density and doominess is suffocating. The title cut follows sickly suit even with a slightly pacier introduction, but it\u2019s still deep, gnawing and morbid.<\/p>\n

Closing with a rendition of No Mercy\u2019s \u2018Waking The Dead\u2019, Leprophiliac mixes both trudging evil with faster rhythms and you forget that this is a track written by a Californian crossover act back in the 80s. It\u2019s a great way to end this release, but again it leaves me salivating for more. For now though, Leprophiliac has achieved its mission in infecting a small populace and I can\u2019t wait for further contagion.<\/p>\n

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

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