{"id":93589,"date":"2022-04-29T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=93589"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:06:00","slug":"ep-review-brainbath-brainbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-brainbath-brainbath\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAINBATH – BrainBath EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRAINBATH
BrainBath EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMacho (2022)<\/span>
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Suddenly the land of Scotland is vomiting out several impressive death metal bands and here\u2019s another to add to the list, BrainBath.<\/p>\n

This five-piece hasn\u2019t been around long but they\u2019ve served up six tracks of wholesome death metal here, and they entertain along the way with track titles such as \u2018Garbage Truck Suicide\u2019 and \u2018Dumped In Septic Waste\u2019. But musically it\u2019s serious, riveting death metal.<\/p>\n

\u2018Garbage Truck Suicide\u2019 oozes in Autopsy-styled fashion with morose and macabre churnings of doom built upon the foundation of Lobotomizer\u2019s gruelling rhythm axe and Kendo\u2019s morbid leads. In the swamp of doom-laden slop there\u2019s the hissing percussion of Blooter, the clanking bass of Barrett and the howling yowls of a madman from vocalist Warmaster Kwondo.<\/p>\n

For me, \u2018Garbage Truck Suicide\u2019 is the best track on the EP, more so due to its heavy, downtuned grisly introduction. But when the pace quickens we\u2019re still in a swampy mess of guzzling, melancholic tumult, with the instruments providing that punky Autopsy-cum-Impetigo pace then deflating, seeping noxious gas and sewer pus before embarking on another speeding adventure.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dumped In Septic Waste\u2019 provides further filth and fetid growls, where again that bass and drum work in tandem to provide a fat, blubbery wall of sickness. The foul rattling constructed is just rank with dripping gore; the tracks come thick n\u2019 fast, globules of septic haste which burst pustular slop onto the ears.<\/p>\n

The gnashing \u2018The Thing: From Another World\u2019 again echoes of that Autopsy-style of drudgery, and \u2018Boneyard\u2019 is a zombified geyser boiling and spouting harsh, blistering plops onto the skin as the frantic fuzz entwines with the ghastly vocal burps. Meanwhile, the grimy sludge groove of \u2018Stripped Clean\u2019 commands the undead to rise from steaming graves as a punky rhythm kick-starts the gloomy pace.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Stench Of Burning Human Flesh\u2019 cascades with simmering axe work and simmering percussion before the bass chimes like a muddy plonk as the combo embarks on a gnawing, gruelling trudge through the sewers of flesh, bone and excrement. It\u2019s all so squalid and infected, the band chomping on great lumps of flesh before each segment of horrible pace overcomes you, stuffing your mouth with squirming maggots and battering your corpse with severed limbs.<\/p>\n

BrainBath is one of the sickest death metal sounding acts out there, constantly burping up gloom-laced thrashing menace in that familiar, fog-ridden fusty styling we just can\u2019t help but slurp up.<\/p>\n

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

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