{"id":95077,"date":"2022-08-12T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=95077"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:58:48","slug":"album-review-barbarian-viperface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-barbarian-viperface\/","title":{"rendered":"BARBARIAN – Viperface (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BARBARIAN
Viperface<\/strong><\/span>
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\nHells Headbangers (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Italy\u2019s Barbarian releases albums like movies such as Halloween<\/em> shits out sequels\u2026 frequently! The title of Viperface<\/em> doesn\u2019t quite sit well with me, probably because it\u2019s better suited to a track title rather than an album title, but this is the fifth full-length from a band who have mastered the art of churning out rusty, fast-paced metal.<\/p>\n

My only issue here is the rather clanky drum sound which I\u2019m not sure is intentional or not. Even so, like the rest of their albums, Viperface<\/em> is a furious opus with streaks of blackened, drunken melody and a malicious onslaught of vocal snarls and sneers.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s some nice Gothic chants to the opening title track which provides a good tempo shift and catchy hooks, while \u2018Chant Of The Inflicter\u2019 features a truly gnarly bass but a steely, mid-tempo trad\u2019 metal melody before clanking like an unhinged portcullis battered by orcs. However, that drum sound is bloody awful if I\u2019m honest. I get that the drummer is known as Sledgehammer, but there\u2019s something almost tinny and un-heavy about his clattering and it does affect the feel of this seven-track affair.<\/p>\n

\u2018Whisper My Name\u2019 is a fluent, chunky monster with fiery axe work, although a few tracks do start to melt into one another as generic mid-tempo plodders, so a bit of variety wouldn\u2019t have gone amiss every now and then because while many tracks start well (\u2018A Feast For The Feast\u2019) the gallop is predictable at which ever speed this iron horse strides.<\/p>\n

\u2018Regressive Metal\u2019 \u2013 title-wise anyway \u2013 attempts to explain no doubt why this album suffers from a no-frills attitude, but however much Blackstuff hammers his bass and Borys Crossburn inhales black smoke into his charred lungs, I just feel that with a few more tweaks this band could sound quite organic and evil. However, as it stands Viperface<\/em> hurries like a Hellhammer-cum-Mot\u00f6rhead but without the nefarious edge in spite of its confrontational stance.<\/p>\n

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

BARBARIANViperface Hells Headbangers (2022)Rating: 6\/10 Italy\u2019s Barbarian releases albums like movies such as Halloween shits out sequels\u2026 frequently! The title of Viperface doesn\u2019t quite sit well with me, probably because it\u2019s better suited to a track title rather than an album title, but this is the fifth full-length from a band who have mastered the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4953],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-barbarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95077","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=95077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95078,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95077\/revisions\/95078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}