{"id":96945,"date":"2022-10-07T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=96945"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:56:33","slug":"album-review-faceless-burial-at-the-foothills-of-deliration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-faceless-burial-at-the-foothills-of-deliration\/","title":{"rendered":"FACELESS BURIAL – At The Foothills Of Deliration (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

FACELESS BURIAL
At The Foothills Of Deliration<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMe Saco un Ojo \/ Dark Descent \/ Desiccated Productions (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Arguably Faceless Burial\u2019s most adventurous outing to date, At The Foothills Of Deliration<\/em> comes equipped with an atmospheric synth backbone but for the most part drowns the listener in a strange, engaging mix of vibrancy, subtlety, complexity and extremity.<\/p>\n

Firstly, let\u2019s talk about the fantastic axe work from F\u00fcj who creates vast walls of intoxicating riffage while also weaving through the gauze with deft touches of intricacy. Then we have bassist Alex Macfarlane\u2019s deep bellows, but most importantly, his devious bass licks squirm in tandem with the nefarious, quizzical percussive splays of drummer Max Kohane. Yep, the Australian band\u2019s third full-length outing \u2013 for all of its meaty downpours \u2013 is incredibly atmospheric, multi-layered and challenging with its complexity.<\/p>\n

Opening track \u2018Equipoise Recast\u2019 pretty much sums this record up; a swirling kaleidoscope that bewilders in its spine-crushing wizardry while also serving up dish after dish of exquisite changes and alterations that numerous revisits are demanded. In fact, I played this song eight times before moving on to the rest of the album, and then I treated each track accordingly, devoting time and focus to their inner workings because when you hear what seems like a simplistic chug of a track such as \u2018A Mire Of Penitence\u2019, you still discover varying other levels deep down.<\/p>\n

On first listen you may find this record inaccessible, and yet it\u2019s not as if it\u2019s shifting towards jazzy premises or a Gorguts thinness, it\u2019s just that these guys have clearly spent time assembling this network of passages to create such a dense arrangement. You\u2019ll find plenty of heavy, chuggy segments coupled with angular, abrasive flairs \u2013 as showcased with \u2018A Mire Of Penitence\u2019 \u2013 but there are so many twists that by the time you\u2019ve reached closing track \u2018Redivivus Through Vaticination\u2019 you\u2019ll immediately want to step back in from the start. My path led me towards the bass work, then second time round the drums and then finally the guitar, just to appreciate the qualities of each instrument.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dehiscent\u2019 features some of the band\u2019s fastest blasts, but then again there are mid-tempo slabs of dissonant anguish to behold too. It is brainy death metal riddled with shifts and striking patterns and yet through all the bewildering tempos and moods there remains a chunky, atmospheric old school battery even when a track such as \u2018From The Bastion To The Pit\u2019 lumbers.<\/p>\n

At The Foothills Of Deliration<\/em> is a sick and twisted affair for the perverted souls who like to bathe in what is at times self-indulgent, complicated yet multi-layered death metal.<\/p>\n

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

FACELESS BURIALAt The Foothills Of Deliration Me Saco un Ojo \/ Dark Descent \/ Desiccated Productions (2022)Rating: 8.5\/10 Arguably Faceless Burial\u2019s most adventurous outing to date, At The Foothills Of Deliration comes equipped with an atmospheric synth backbone but for the most part drowns the listener in a strange, engaging mix of vibrancy, subtlety, complexity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-faceless-burial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96945","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=96945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96948,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96945\/revisions\/96948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}