{"id":97716,"date":"2022-11-04T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=97716"},"modified":"2023-01-27T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T12:59:41","slug":"album-review-vacuous-depths-corporal-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-vacuous-depths-corporal-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"VACUOUS DEPTHS – Corporal Humiliation (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

VACUOUS DEPTHS
Corporal Humiliation<\/strong><\/span>
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\nBlood Harvest \/ Chaos \/ Goat Throne (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Vacuous Depths are a solid and brutal Tampa, Florida-based trio that bulldozes your skull with this debut 30-minute affair. If you want death metal dripping with menace and throwing up constant barrages of eye-gouging riffage then this is the album for you.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a sucker for catchy death metal and when opening track \u2018Gold Crosses\u2019 shifts into that twisted orgy of dark, rolling riffage I\u2019m writhing in ecstasy. This is not an album that let\u2019s up, everything about it is hefty and guttural; kudos then to drummer Dustin Rogers whose kit must have suffered a severe beating in the making of this impressive slab.<\/p>\n

Every track \u2013 including a cover rendition of Sepultura\u2019s \u2018Troops Of Doom\u2019 \u2013 is delivered in a filth-coated manner; evil, violent gnashing dynamics which suggest the guitars and bass are spewing a mix of thick saliva and ash.<\/p>\n

Vocalist Austin Thomas has a choppy, dehydrated sort of style as the band lumbers through the bulging \u2018Exteriorization\u2019 which reeks of doomy nuances and features the best vocal work which comes across as a slurping, gore-soaked snarl. The title track is a colossal slab where again there\u2019s that deep, dark churning nature to the instrumentation and those percussive thuds and slaps are guaranteed migraine fodder.<\/p>\n

Corporal Humiliation<\/em> is also littered with devastatingly fast passages; black gales of arctic rust and pallid torment whereby chaotic fumes smother the ears like soot-speckled gases. Check out the blitz of \u2018Cycle Of Control\u2019 for evidence of such harrowing haste.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a brave person that can sit through such a whirlwind of grit, despair and molten fury because Vacuous Depths really do take great pleasure in humiliating its audience.<\/p>\n

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

VACUOUS DEPTHSCorporal Humiliation Blood Harvest \/ Chaos \/ Goat Throne (2022)Rating: 8\/10 Vacuous Depths are a solid and brutal Tampa, Florida-based trio that bulldozes your skull with this debut 30-minute affair. If you want death metal dripping with menace and throwing up constant barrages of eye-gouging riffage then this is the album for you. I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-vacuous-depths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97716","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=97716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97719,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97716\/revisions\/97719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}