{"id":98317,"date":"2023-03-03T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=98317"},"modified":"2023-03-15T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T18:48:04","slug":"ep-review-verminoth-grotesque-manifestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-verminoth-grotesque-manifestation\/","title":{"rendered":"VERMINOTH – Grotesque Manifestation EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

VERMINOTH
Grotesque Manifestation EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nGrand Vomit Productions (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Two years after their 2021 debut full-length outing Primordial Tomb<\/em>, Pennsylvanian death metallers Verminoth return with one of the year\u2019s best album covers; a sickly pea-soup fog that conceals hideous leering entities and provides the perfect accompaniment to a soundtrack of squelching, burping morbidity.<\/p>\n

Admittedly the sways towards a slam mind-set would normally put me off, but there is a rancid and rank joy to the gurgled vocal bellows and that groove-based percussion. With a cover like that I did expect a sound daubed in much more atmosphere than what it actually offers, but there are still plenty of squalid moments to devour as the five-piece revels in its adoration of old school death metal channelled via chunky riffs.<\/p>\n

Tracks such as the grinding \u2018Malignant Gestation\u2019 offer enough sludge-packed hammering and growling to please anyone with a penchant for catchy brutality, while elsewhere the title cut offers that steady, rhythmic pus-filled pulsation in its drums and guitar which work well in tandem with the rumbling bass and chesty vocals.<\/p>\n

Verminoth take occasional trips into hardcore territory too and so the bubbling cauldron of sounds they offer has a sense of eeriness alongside its catchiness, but it doesn\u2019t come anywhere near the gore-soaked brilliance of acts such as Fetid and Cerebral Rot.<\/p>\n

Boasting four tracks, Grotesque Manifestation<\/em> is a solid and often satisfying death metal offering, but in a field jam-packed with so many macabre acts I\u2019m not sure it does enough to stay in the stereo for very long, which is a shame because that cover art really suggests something swampy and sick.<\/p>\n

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

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