{"id":94084,"date":"2022-06-12T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=94084"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:55:21","slug":"demo-review-trashcasket-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-trashcasket-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"TRASHCASKET – Demo (2022) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This one just landed in my lap and was a pleasant surprise. These guys are from Spokane in Washington, and play a nasty punk-infused death metal but with thrashy crossover nuances. It\u2019s a rewarding demo in that you get seven tracks with a total running time of just under 30-minutes of music.<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Reigning Terror\u2019 has a really squalid, maniacal feel \u2013 the sort of unhinged wildness that drew me to bands like Repulsion all those years ago. The vocals are mean, sneering and snappy, while the music has a lo-fi filthy vibe. The slow, chuggier segments have whiffs of Autopsy as the bass rattles competently.<\/p>\n

\u2018Sacrament\u2019 begins like an unreleased old Slayer<\/a> tune as streaks of distorted blackness run through it. Again, there\u2019s that drooling vocal sneer which drags me in every time to add to the murky, low-budget atmosphere. \u2018Sacrament\u2019 is definitely my favourite track due to its doomy segment which channel Autopsy right down to the core as the drums lumber and the guitar tone just filters into the soil, such is its low density.<\/p>\n

For the most part, Trenchcasket provides nasty mid-tempo evilness married with bursts of punky pace. So in a sense I would call it death metal although there\u2019s other stuff going on, but it all remains extremely murky and brimming with snarling attitude.<\/p>\n

\u2018Into The Ground\u2019, beginning with a wailing siren, is one of the thrashier numbers on offer, but you\u2019ll still spend the duration of the song cleaning soot from your ears. Meanwhile, \u2018Dying Earth\u2019 is short and creepy, brimming with film samples and creepy effects.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s the hammering \u2018Necropolis\u2019 which really gets the black smoke billowing as the band froth with a black \/ death intensity before the foul chugging takes over. The same can also be said for \u2018Baphomet\u2019, a blackened slog harkening back to the first wave of unholy black metal yet thickened with death metal n\u2019 punk serum to keep it chugging along.<\/p>\n

\u2018War Machine\u2019 closes the demo, and it\u2019s the catchiest heap of punked-up Mot\u00f6rhead you\u2019ll hear this side of the millennium. Then the thrashy bursts come in and you\u2019re drunk on graven fumes and that sick Autopsy vibe.<\/p>\n

Matt Clark\u2019s drums are a mangled mess of brilliance throughout this demo, providing extra layers of filth. And the yowling vocal snaps bring extra levels of derangement to what is essentially an organic, lo-fi creation that has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum.<\/p>\n

For those interested, the demo is available here<\/a><\/p>\n

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

TRASHCASKET Demo (2022) This one just landed in my lap and was a pleasant surprise. These guys are from Spokane in Washington, and play a nasty punk-infused death metal but with thrashy crossover nuances. It\u2019s a rewarding demo in that you get seven tracks with a total running time of just under 30-minutes of music. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-trashcasket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94084","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=94084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94088,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94084\/revisions\/94088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}