{"id":97954,"date":"2022-12-19T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=97954"},"modified":"2023-02-15T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:10:12","slug":"ep-review-katy-scary-absolute-fucking-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-katy-scary-absolute-fucking-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"KATY SCARY &#8211; Absolute Fucking Terror EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>KATY SCARY<br \/>Absolute Fucking Terror EP<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" height=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"title3\"><span style=\"color: #c80000;\">Self-released (2022)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/katyscary_absolutefuckingterrorep.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katy Scary is the name and black thrash is the game on the four-song debut offering from this Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based act. This EP is the work of one person and comes chock full of ripping riffs, some nice melodic solos and scratchy vocal snaps. Paying homage to the first and second wave black metal torrents, <em>Absolute Fucking Terror<\/em> is 13 minutes of sniping metal where the riffs come to the fore as catchy yet abrasive slaps.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I Am The Blood\u2019, \u2018The Worm\u2019, \u2018Broken Vessel\u2019 and \u2018Into The Mouth Of Azathoth\u2019 are pretty standard practices but there is a crispness and bite to proceedings here, although the seriousness of it all is somewhat let down by the rather cheesy forest music video for \u2018The Worm\u2019. Even so, <em>Absolute Fucking Terror<\/em> remains a potent EP for black metal purists and the like who dig infectious guitar work and bewitching vocal melodies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATY SCARYAbsolute Fucking Terror EP Self-released (2022)Rating: 6.5\/10 Katy Scary is the name and black thrash is the game on the four-song debut offering from this Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based act. This EP is the work of one person and comes chock full of ripping riffs, some nice melodic solos and scratchy vocal snaps. Paying homage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-katy-scary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97954","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=97954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97956,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97954\/revisions\/97956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}