{"id":95434,"date":"2022-08-26T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=95434"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:26:33","slug":"album-review-bloody-redemption-hit-to-the-gore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-bloody-redemption-hit-to-the-gore\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOODY REDEMPTION – Hit To The Gore (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BLOODY REDEMPTION
Hit To The Gore<\/strong><\/span>
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\nAwakening (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I thought these Slovak metallers gave up the ghost after the release of their 2017 debut album Infected Minds<\/em>, but it\u2019s always good to see a band return from the shadows with extra vigour and intent.<\/p>\n

Hit To The Gore<\/em> is a strong eight-track affair that transports one back to the early-to-mid 90s death metal scene. I guess some may call this old school death metal, although I sometimes struggle with the clean, clinical nature of some bands from that particular era. I\u2019ll call Bloody Redemption simple death metal, but not as a way of being disrespectful as this opus has that no frills feel without ever being murky.<\/p>\n

There are some nice segments of lower paced heaviness and the growls of guitarist Jozef \u201cFalusoid\u201d Kov\u00e1\u010d certainly add menace, especially on \u2018Unknown Evil\u2019, but it\u2019s still standard death metal by design. Much of the record is up-tempo and aggressive where the likes of \u2018Vultures Waiting\u2019 and \u2018Beyond The Truth\u2019 successfully marry strong melodic darkness with flashes of belligerence, while the title track begins more like a contemporary Megadeth<\/a> track with its metallic chugging.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere there is no great deviation, just solid and consistent death metal as again the strong melodies come to the fore with \u2018Ancient Knowledge\u2019 and \u2018Shotgun Lullaby\u2019 heading off into thrashier climes.<\/p>\n

One gets the impression that Bloody Redemption has set their stall out and it\u2019s one made of concrete foundations and dense walls. There\u2019s nothing decorative or even macabre about this record. Instead, it\u2019s all no fuss and to the point, and I\u2019m sure such a production will appeal to many.<\/p>\n

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

BLOODY REDEMPTIONHit To The Gore Awakening (2022)Rating: 6.5\/10 I thought these Slovak metallers gave up the ghost after the release of their 2017 debut album Infected Minds, but it\u2019s always good to see a band return from the shadows with extra vigour and intent. Hit To The Gore is a strong eight-track affair that transports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4986],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-bloody-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95434","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=95434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95436,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95434\/revisions\/95436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}