{"id":97982,"date":"2023-02-09T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=97982"},"modified":"2023-02-17T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T15:05:01","slug":"demo-review-masticated-cadaver-necrotic-mutation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-masticated-cadaver-necrotic-mutation\/","title":{"rendered":"MASTICATED CADAVER – Necrotic Mutation (2023) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MASTICATED CADAVER<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nNecrotic Mutation (2023)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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These kind of releases are turning up all over the place. You see the green sinewy cover art, you see the sticky band logo and the equally slime-ridden track titles and you know you\u2019re in for something filthy.<\/p>\n

Admittedly I expected this debut demo from Canada\u2019s Masticated Cadaver to be far heavier and, dare I say it, more putrid. As namesake track \u2018Masticated Cadaver\u2019 takes hold after a short intro, this solo project feels more like a rehearsal with its all-round rawness and tininess. Okay, the track does have some cool slower meanderings injected with a gnarly solo \u2013 in fact it\u2019s almost doomy \u2013 but such is the lo-fi quality that I don\u2019t get suffocated by the swampiness I was hoping for.<\/p>\n

\u2018Festering Womb Of Rotting Flesh\u2019 and \u2018Necrotic Mutation\u2019 are both trash cans of nastiness, but neither fully convince me that Masticated Cadaver is anything but a z-list hack job that anyone could do.<\/p>\n

There is a fine line nowadays between utterly sincere yet ghoulish death metal and bands trying to sound rough for the sake of it. This release lacks meat, and for all of its suggestions of being a stinking pit of gore-soaked heaviness it just hisses and clanks with no real bite. For me, Necrotic Mutation<\/em> feels and most importantly sounds like a rush job.<\/p>\n

For those of you interested, the Necrotic Mutation<\/em> demo is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

MASTICATED CADAVER Necrotic Mutation (2023) These kind of releases are turning up all over the place. You see the green sinewy cover art, you see the sticky band logo and the equally slime-ridden track titles and you know you\u2019re in for something filthy. Admittedly I expected this debut demo from Canada\u2019s Masticated Cadaver to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-masticated-cadaver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97982","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=97982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97986,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97982\/revisions\/97986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}