{"id":97228,"date":"2022-11-24T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=97228"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:13:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T17:13:47","slug":"album-review-old-grave-alive-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-old-grave-alive-again\/","title":{"rendered":"OLD GRAVE – Alive Again (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

OLD GRAVE
Alive Again<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"\"
\nOld Metal Crypt (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\n\n
<\/td>\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Ad Bestias of Heresiarkhes is the guy behind Old Grave, an Irkutsk, Russia-based one-man death metal project that rattles with bass heavy morbidity while channelling Swedish buzzsaw grimness.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to argue with a tried and tested formula, especially when the riffs are so catchy as evidenced on the opening track \u2018Winter Curse\u2019. And all which follow are rattling compositions led by dry vocal bellows and chugging catchiness which have more effect when in that mid-tempo groove, although those moments are scant. \u2018Asylum Of The Hanged\u2019 and \u2018Goat Skull\u2019 are the fastest tracks on offer but I tend to prefer the more laborious moments such as the mammoth traipse of \u2018Deadly Gulp\u2019.<\/p>\n

At times this record does drift towards the generic but it does remain catchy throughout if somewhat bereft of thrills due to its old school design and dynamics. Alive Again<\/em> is a solid sophomore outing from Mr. Bestias and one which is comfortable in its own rotten skin.<\/p>\n

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

OLD GRAVEAlive Again Old Metal Crypt (2022)Rating: 7\/10 Ad Bestias of Heresiarkhes is the guy behind Old Grave, an Irkutsk, Russia-based one-man death metal project that rattles with bass heavy morbidity while channelling Swedish buzzsaw grimness. It\u2019s hard to argue with a tried and tested formula, especially when the riffs are so catchy as evidenced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-old-grave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97228","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=97228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97232,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97228\/revisions\/97232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}