{"id":98342,"date":"2023-01-23T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=98342"},"modified":"2023-03-17T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T19:03:52","slug":"album-review-conjureth-the-parasitic-chambers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-conjureth-the-parasitic-chambers\/","title":{"rendered":"CONJURETH – The Parasitic Chambers (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CONJURETH
The Parasitic Chambers<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMemento Mori \/ Rotted Life (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Having missed out on Conjureth\u2019s 2021 full-length debut, Majestic Dissolve<\/em>, I made sure that this time round I would be there at the feast, and believe me this is some feast. The San Diego, California-based band somehow manages to be at once slick, melodic, brutal and technical with this impressive sophomore putting.<\/p>\n

The cover art doesn\u2019t really match the sound within, and some may be expecting a cavernous and dank opus. Instead, and even with those vicious vocal retorts, this is a well-crafted, often clean and pulverising record that refuses to relent.<\/p>\n

From opener \u2018Smothering Psalms\u2019 through to closer \u2018The Unworshipped II\u2019 this ten-track affair acts as a ruthless tirade and volatile torrent that is destructive in its speed. There is melody, there is thought and an unnerving tightness, but it\u2019s the sheer speed and cascading brutality which impresses the most, and with nary a shade of repetition.<\/p>\n

With Conjureth you get streaks of Demilich and Floridian extremity, where vast walls of ruthlessness are constructed with hardly a stop for breath to the point that what are relatively normal length tracks feel like harsh blizzards of cruelty.<\/p>\n

Shreds of technicality are injected throughout this full scale blitz. \u2018Devastating Cataclysmic Unearthing\u2019 combines mid-paced gnashing with intricate twists, \u2018The Ancient Presence\u2019 has thrash sensibilities to its attack, \u2018In Mortal Thresholds\u2019 follows a similar theme of mid-paced savagery and bewildering haste, and \u2018Cremated Dominion\u2019 is equally punishing.<\/p>\n

Conjureth is such an unforgiving beast in its aggression that this opus really does take several listens to get into. Only the aforementioned closing track \u2018The Unworshipped II\u2019 offers any sense of relief with its doomy tones, but in general you can drop in on any track here and be prepared to be ravaged by complex shifts of what are essentially frantic batterings and frothing arrangements.<\/p>\n

If you can brace yourself for such merciless berating then you\u2019ve a harder skull than I, because The Parasitic Chambers<\/em> is an ever-flowing river of tyrannical beatings. Brace yourself!<\/p>\n

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

CONJURETHThe Parasitic Chambers Memento Mori \/ Rotted Life (2023)Rating: 8\/10 Having missed out on Conjureth\u2019s 2021 full-length debut, Majestic Dissolve, I made sure that this time round I would be there at the feast, and believe me this is some feast. The San Diego, California-based band somehow manages to be at once slick, melodic, brutal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-conjureth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98342","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=98342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98346,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98342\/revisions\/98346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}