{"id":94247,"date":"2022-06-22T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=94247"},"modified":"2022-07-07T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:32:14","slug":"ep-review-norfulthing-norfulthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-norfulthing-norfulthing\/","title":{"rendered":"NORFULTHING – Norfulthing EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORFULTHING
Norfulthing EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2022)<\/span>
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Here\u2019s a mysterious Finnish duo that comes masked in balaclavas against a snowy backdrop. This is Norfulthing\u2019s debut offering, and in typical Finnish fashion it\u2019s some classy underground death metal featuring some truly gruesome vocal grunts.<\/p>\n

Opening track \u2018Dots\u2019 showcases why Finland is such a hot-bed of creativity when it comes to extreme metal because with this track you get some strange musical designs alongside the more straight-forward gnashing. A few film samples, a sense of industrial mechanism and those chugging riffs and we\u2019re on to a rather original slab.<\/p>\n

\u2018Anger Turned Outward\u2019 is one of the more aggressive outbursts on this six-track affair, which again is propelled by the hammering drums and that clanking riffage supported by the equally rough bass.<\/p>\n

This will of course be labelled as death metal but there\u2019s more of an unorthodox feel, and again I really like the film samples entwined within the strange haze of extremity. This is the sort of release a label like Peaceville or Earache might have put out in the late 80s and more so early 90s, such is its peculiar aggression.<\/p>\n

\u2018Stochastic Teratomism\u2019, \u2018Beset By Leeches\u2019 and \u2018Eyes Clouded By Vicious Visions\u2019 billow black smoke as they rattle with a fervour. It really is an interesting mesh of wiry aggression bolstered by the clanking bass and the relentless percussion.<\/p>\n

Closer \u2018Hepatological Confirmation To Monstrosity\u2019 rambles like some lost Defecation track. And that\u2019s the feel I get here\u2026 not strictly death metal, or grind, or hardcore, but a mixing of aggressive flavours to produce a volatile environment where all instruments become one great machine of antagonism.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking forward to more from this duo such is their nature to provide slightly unorthodox yet seething rants.<\/p>\n

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

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