{"id":95481,"date":"2022-08-26T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=95481"},"modified":"2022-09-20T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:56:48","slug":"album-review-intent-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-intent-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"INTENT – Exile (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

INTENT
Exile<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Moving on since their 2018 debut full-length Vox Populi<\/em>, Arizona thrashers Intent have upped their game to provide us with an abrasive ear battering driven by Teutonic (more so modern Sodom and Destruction<\/a> specifically) rhythms fused with a Warbringer-esque hostility. And the hardcore thrashers among you will revel in the angst of this record because there\u2019s nary a moment when the combo takes a break from its punishing algorithms.<\/p>\n

From opener \u2018Victims Of Conquest\u2019 to closer \u20185th Column\u2019 there\u2019s total aggression, and at times I\u2019m reminded of Slayer<\/a> via God Hates Us All<\/em><\/a> (2001), more so with the vocal rants of guitarist Jeremy Lambert who has that Tom Araya vibe fused with a more contemporary attack.<\/p>\n

Lambert also produced the opus and that\u2019s why this album gnashes so furiously, although at times there is a slightly mechanical feel to its barrages. But even so, this is a belligerent thrash outing based upon the riotous foundations of Garrett Loper\u2019s percussive performance, while the riffs of this thing cut like razor-wire.<\/p>\n

The title is a fast and furious expression, \u2018Changing The Axis\u2019 feels slick in its fury, and the bewildering riff alterations on \u20185th Column\u2019 are sure to scald the ears. But dive into this record at any point and you\u2019ll be guaranteed a pounding.<\/p>\n

Strangely, although the album runs for under 40-minutes, there are moments, particularly on \u2018Primal Instinct\u2019, where everything feels like it could have done with a trim. But one also gets the feeling that Exile<\/em> is completely unapologetic in its form, thrashing hard until you submit.<\/p>\n

At times the tracks do start to melt into one another, with only \u2018Time\u2019 really standing out as showcasing flexibility within such a harsh framework of ideas, but even then there\u2019s a bruising Sepultura tone.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubting the power and violence of Intent\u2019s sophomore outing, and a marked progression too from the rather by-numbers approach of the debut.<\/p>\n

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

INTENTExile Self-released (2022)Rating: 7\/10 Moving on since their 2018 debut full-length Vox Populi, Arizona thrashers Intent have upped their game to provide us with an abrasive ear battering driven by Teutonic (more so modern Sodom and Destruction specifically) rhythms fused with a Warbringer-esque hostility. And the hardcore thrashers among you will revel in the angst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-intent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95481","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=95481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95482,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95481\/revisions\/95482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}