{"id":98382,"date":"2023-01-23T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=98382"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:30:05","slug":"demo-review-wormface-a-sound-you-can-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-wormface-a-sound-you-can-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"WORMFACE – A Sound You Can Smell (2023) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA Sound You Can Smell (2023)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Featuring members of Anthropophagous, Wormface is a nasty, guttural death metal trio from Montague in Massachusetts with a line-up of Mike Fagan (vocals and bass), Shane Dupuy (guitar) and Steve Kamienski (drums). What you get here is just over 16 minutes of drudgery whereby dank, twisted riffs merge with thudding percussion and indecipherable vocal coughs.<\/p>\n

The immediate grim joy of this opus is apparent on the opening salvo \u2018Slave To Torpor\u2019 with its perverse gait, and that dragging theme continues with the dense smothering of namesake track \u2018Wormface\u2019, the sludgy grimace of \u2018Estrus Of Ghost\u2019 and onwards through the rest of this foul demo.<\/p>\n

There is something unusual and archaic going on here. Pace is a rare thing within the murk as the guys chug with menace through \u2018Behind Bloodmask\u2019, although the closing title track has hints of hastier retreats. However, such flirtations are coated with a thick, black smog of bludgeoning.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a simple case of calling Wormface death metal. Instead, there is a creeping, dense blanket of something else I can\u2019t quite put my finger on. But whatever the cause for such disturbances one thing\u2019s for sure\u2026 it is evil.<\/p>\n

For those of you interested, the A Sound You Can Smell<\/em> demo is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

WORMFACE A Sound You Can Smell (2023) Featuring members of Anthropophagous, Wormface is a nasty, guttural death metal trio from Montague in Massachusetts with a line-up of Mike Fagan (vocals and bass), Shane Dupuy (guitar) and Steve Kamienski (drums). What you get here is just over 16 minutes of drudgery whereby dank, twisted riffs merge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-wormface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98382","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=98382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99610,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98382\/revisions\/99610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}