{"id":95275,"date":"2022-08-19T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=95275"},"modified":"2022-09-06T16:39:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:39:26","slug":"album-review-ferum-asunder-erode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-ferum-asunder-erode\/","title":{"rendered":"FERUM – Asunder \/ Erode (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

FERUM
Asunder \/ Erode<\/strong><\/span>
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\nUnorthodox Emanations \/ Avantgarde Music (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Vocalist Samantha Alessi puts on a remarkably demonic performance on this debut full-length from Italian death \/ doom metal act Ferum. I\u2019d been looking forward to this one after hearing the 2018 Vergence<\/em> EP, but the trio has excelled itself with Asunder \/ Erode<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ferum plays some of the heaviest metal I\u2019ve heard for a long time. Cianide\u2019s Mike Perun features on \u2018The Undead Truth\u2019 which is the first track I\u2019d heard from the new album. It\u2019s a slow-mo pulverisation of chiming, tolling percussion and dragging guitars that just ache with blackness and dread.<\/p>\n

Of the eight tracks on offer, seven of them are lengthy, but none are arduous. Instead, we find ourselves immersed by chunky, fleshed riffs, hefty drum plods and reverberating bass lines, all vile constructions to be headed by Samantha Alessi\u2019s evil, guttural growls.<\/p>\n

The outfit has progressed into a cataclysmic and dense cacophony since the EP. The rank, foul trudging of \u2018Halfhead\u2019 brims with suspenseful logic as the drums hiss with menace, while the ghoulish strains of \u2018Belong\u2019 lumber with cavernous aplomb.<\/p>\n

The sound rarely shifts into anything remotely upbeat. The sullen ooze of \u2018Monolithic Acquiescence\u2019 heaves in time to a dull churchyard bell and clanking percussion as the murky lead struggles to soar above the droning dreariness. Of all the tracks on offer this is Ferum at its most drooling and laborious, effectively crushing the listener in one sodden glide of its muddy hand. Only \u2018Desolate Vantaa\u2019 shifts anywhere towards a catchier grind, but it\u2019s still chugging deathliness reeking of bleak character.<\/p>\n

Existing very much with feet of clay, Ferum\u2019s foreboding imagery and damp bludgeoning is an ideal companion for anyone with an ear for humid slogs that sluggishly drag you into pits of utter despair. Asunder \/ Erode<\/em> is as gruelling and grotesque as I had hoped.<\/p>\n

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

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