This is the debut album from US death/sludge metallers Thra.
Forged in Chaotic Spew is an ugly union of foul death metal and dirty sludge, which has resulted in a merciless 37 minutes of malevolent heaviness. If you’re into the dark underbelly of extreme music, then Thra have birthed a monster for you.
Like a violent patch of sentient darkness shrouded in a miasma of filth, witchery, and loathsome malignance, Forged in Chaotic Spew is an album of both brutality and horror. The songs vomit forth aggression and menace as they crush the listener with feral snarling intensity and walls of festering distortion. Thra’s mix of grim doomy sludge and depraved death metal muscle is infectious and insidious, growing in stature over time as its malice-strewn corruption contaminates the airwaves with its choking pestilence.
In addition to the main poisonous ingredients of death and sludge, Thra have also greedily guzzled black metal and doom influences into their repulsive formula. The resultant concoction is one that’s sure to spread a plague of repellent enthusiasm through sludge/death/doom fans, as the music’s decaying energies and fetid atmospheres worm their way forcefully into the skulls of any who are foolish enough to get too close.
Forged in Chaotic Spew is a weapon of terror and nightmare. Birthed from the feverish minds of Thra and delivered with withering heaviness and malign presence, it’s a must-listen for fans of underground ugliness.
(My only real complaint here is that, frustratingly, there are three filler interludes that take up an entire six minutes of the running time, unfortunately).
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