{"id":106149,"date":"2023-10-19T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T14:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=106149"},"modified":"2023-10-19T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T14:12:03","slug":"malicious-announce-new-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=106149","title":{"rendered":"MALICIOUS – Announce New EP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

INVICTUS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a brand-new EP from Finland’s MALICIOUS, Merciless Storm<\/em>, on \u200bCD and \u200b12″ vinyl formats. Coming December 1st, 2023!

It was but October 2020 when INVICTUS released MALICIOUS’ long-awaited debut album, Deranged Hexes<\/em>. With both band moniker and album title aptly-fucking-named, MALICIOUS’ Deranged Hexes <\/em>completely upratcheted the band’s foundational sound – a car crash of cobwebbed evil and gibbering intensity, ranging the likes of Necrovore, \u201880s Possessed, and especially Mike Browning-era Morbid Angel to the earliest (and best) works of Sarcofago and Sepultura – to an insanely OTT level. In every respect, the record was the penultimate in blackened Metal of Death, and it was duly hailed for its dangerously unhinged demeanor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three years may’ve passed since that recording, but MALICIOUS have only become more unhinged in the meantime. Witness the four-song Merciless Storm<\/em>. Tauntingly titled once again, Merciless Storm <\/em>picks up right where Deranged Hexes <\/em>left off, but sees the Finns following a natural progression in all aspects. With a runtime of 11 minutes, it’s mercilessly \/ mercifully short and sweet, upping the violence and aggression to levels impossibly beyond that nuclear-powered debut album. And yet, the songwriting remains stout and streamlined and perhaps minutely more detailed and even palatably “refined.” If anything, Merciless Storm <\/em>possesses a clearer soundfield, but that only amplifies the savagery to an insane degree, especially the ’80s Slayer-style solos. Nothing else to say: this is a fucking Merciless Storm<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com\/MaliciousFin<\/a> 
www.invictusproductions.net<\/a>
www.invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com<\/a>
www.facebook.com\/invictusproductions<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INVICTUS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a brand-new EP from Finland’s MALICIOUS, Merciless Storm, on \u200bCD…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106157,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106149\/revisions\/106157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}