{"id":97526,"date":"2022-12-26T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=97526"},"modified":"2023-01-12T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:57:11","slug":"ep-review-crimson-froxx-space-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-crimson-froxx-space-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"CRIMS\u00d8N FR\u00d6XX – Space Murder EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRIMS\u00d8N FR\u00d6XX
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\nSelf-released (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m blessed once again by another of those obscure looking mid-to-late 80s designs as this Mexican combo rattles me with their debut tirade, Space Murder<\/em>. This EP delivers five tracks, one being a short intro before the wild blasts of \u2018Chaos Awaits\u2019 singes your eyebrows like a burning sun.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect with this bunch but it is the heaviness which caught me off guard. The guitars of Alfredo Araya (rhythm) and Li Frankenstein (lead) have a thick, fiery tone and eerie solos echo throughout this lo-fi affair. The riffs remain molten and dense and border on a Slayer<\/a> vibe, while the bass of Sebasti\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s and drums of Jesus Ontiveros hurtle with equal hostility.<\/p>\n

Vocally, frontman Araya has a wild, rasping tone and the whole thing results in a murky primal Possessed tone with its cavernous atmosphere and strange, unorthodox stirrings. \u2018Winter Freezes Hell\u2019 is a fast-paced composition packed with wild guitars and the equally frenzied percussion of Ontiveros who sounds as if he\u2019s bashing two garbage can lids together.<\/p>\n

Within all its primal fury there is a real 80s satanic charm to this messy thrash escapade which culminates in the excellent \u2018Reign Of Terror\u2019 which suggests a maturity with its opening acoustic setting before it truly disappears into garage land.<\/p>\n

This is a rough n\u2019 barely ready EP that brims with a vicious excitement and reckless rebellion. Will Crims\u00f8n Fr\u00f6xx even make it to a full-length before imploding? Who knows, but I wait with baited breath for the next episode of underground zaniness.<\/p>\n

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

CRIMS\u00d8N FR\u00d6XXSpace Murder EP Self-released (2022)Rating: 7\/10 I\u2019m blessed once again by another of those obscure looking mid-to-late 80s designs as this Mexican combo rattles me with their debut tirade, Space Murder. This EP delivers five tracks, one being a short intro before the wild blasts of \u2018Chaos Awaits\u2019 singes your eyebrows like a burning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-crimson-froxx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97526","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=97526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97527,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97526\/revisions\/97527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}