{"id":94008,"date":"2022-06-13T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=94008"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:26:40","slug":"ep-review-larvae-acid-horror-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-larvae-acid-horror-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"LARVAE – Acid Horror Cult EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

LARVAE
Acid Horror Cult EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Joining the likes of Sequestrum and Leprophiliac on their very own pulpit of pus, Italian \/ Romanian band Larvae finally drops its next repulsive feast of festering shit \u2013 three tracks of squelching abysmal gore infused with a sickly vocal sneer that pukes up its own bowels.<\/p>\n

Acid Horror Cult<\/em> is an utterly disgusting expression of smothering, dank death doom that at times loiters towards such lumbering, fetid ooze that to describe it as music would be an injustice.<\/p>\n

The opening title track is just a humid basement buzzing with flies, stinking of vomit and rotten flesh, and squirming to the goo that trickles like syrup from its own dirty crack. It\u2019s just slow-motion water torture from one of the most unhinged bands on the planet, bubbling like a gory gravy pit and more akin to a soundtrack of maggot swarms.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m unsure how vocalist Lucilia Sericata plumbs the depths of her soul to come up with such vile squawks of horror; it\u2019s as if her throat is coated in seeping ulcers and her tongue is fighting against the infection only to be pulled back in to her oesophagus.<\/p>\n

\u2018Cold Euphoria\u2019 is the musical equivalent to drowning in a slimebath (to quote Leprophiliac\u2019s latest release<\/a>) of gelatine, congealed blood, bone marrow and excrement. This is musical torture; a dragging, gnawing distorted fuzz with creepy vocal expressions of ethereal quality alongside the guttural eruptions. \u201cRots, bloats, burns,\u201d<\/em> Lucilia burps before maniacally laughing like a crazed witch and then proceeding to indulge in some weird lullaby\u2026 it\u2019s terrifying.<\/p>\n

For me, Sequestrum\u2019s recent demo release, The Epitome Of Putridity<\/em><\/a>, was the foulest, sickest thing I\u2019d ever heard, but Acid Horror Cult<\/em> has taken the genre to new extremes. This is a snuff film to overtake the video nasty scare, a dirty, grotty, filthy and infected bucket of mulch that you have to drink to survive, but in turn know that that your innards will harden and your veins will blacken\u2026 slowly.<\/p>\n

The short outro \u2018Summoning The Gory Beast\u2019 is more like an end of life confirmation as your final limb disappears beneath the slurry. I\u2019m desperate for this evil twosome to release a full-length of this stuff because as Lucilia burps \u201cThey want to see\u2026\u201d<\/em>, she knows what addicts we are of this sort of unhygienic product. \u201cSweat drips on my flesh,\u201d<\/em> she squeals, \u201cShivers start appearing\u201d<\/em>. Larvae create an illness, a sickening fever that consumes the body and the mind. \u201cColours are changing,\u201d<\/em> she snorts. It\u2019s like a drug-induced haze of sleaze and I\u2019m behind the camera revelling in such horrors.<\/p>\n

Acid Horror Cult<\/em> is an all too short yet atrocious spectacle for sickos.<\/p>\n

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

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