{"id":98390,"date":"2023-02-05T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=98390"},"modified":"2023-03-22T12:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T12:44:51","slug":"ep-review-dreaming-dead-mountain-of-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-dreaming-dead-mountain-of-skull\/","title":{"rendered":"DREAMING DEAD &#8211; Mountain Of Skull EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>DREAMING DEAD<br \/>Mountain Of Skull 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;\">Earblast (2023)<\/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\/03\/dreamingdead_mountainofskullep.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>Malaysian death metal act Dreaming Dead originally formed in the late 90s and released a demo, <em>Ended War<\/em>, in 2000. Now, after what appears to be several years of inactivity, the band return with this debut EP featuring four tracks: \u2018Annihilation Marching\u2019, \u2018Red Blood Screaming\u2019, \u2018For Hate\u2019 and \u2018Mountain Of Skull\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mountain Of Skull<\/em> is a slightly unorthodox release boasting unusual vocal rants which don\u2019t always sit well with me. At times, musically, this reminds me of the old UK death metal band Benediction, but the vocalist seems to be on a different planet from the rest of the band and somehow the EP maintains its charm through its peculiarities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Red Blood Screaming\u2019 has a strong ghastly streak and also boasts some wild lead work, while \u2018For Hate\u2019 chugs with a raw conviction as pace and mid-temp malevolence is fused. Vocalist Chang has that real gnarly tone, an obscure choppiness to his vocals if you will that at times add to the primitive urges of the EP, but at other instances bring a frailty and awkwardness.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat of a curiosity, <em>Mountain Of Skull<\/em> pushes the right buttons for the most part and has that strong underground vibe, but whether there is enough going on to provide longevity remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DREAMING DEADMountain Of Skull EP Earblast (2023)Rating: 6.5\/10 Malaysian death metal act Dreaming Dead originally formed in the late 90s and released a demo, Ended War, in 2000. Now, after what appears to be several years of inactivity, the band return with this debut EP featuring four tracks: \u2018Annihilation Marching\u2019, \u2018Red Blood Screaming\u2019, \u2018For Hate\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-dreaming-dead-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98390","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=98390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98417,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98390\/revisions\/98417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}