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MANGLED
Mangled EP

Self-released (2023)
Rating: 8/10

Chile can do little wrong when it comes to gnarly old school death n’ thrash. The band moniker is hardly original, but the musical mayhem this Santiago-based combo creates is enough to leave your brain as pulp.

What you get bludgeoned by here is 29 minutes of music bolstered by some of the nastiest bass clanks you’ll hear. The sound is raw, grim and punishing with each instrument, including the vocals, sounding primitive and underground. South American extreme metal exists in its own dismal domain, a place where walls are coated in bone powder and the eerie inhabitants spend most of their time cannibalising.

If you want an evil sound then South America has always been a hotbed for organic and sinister noise. Take for instance the hideous thrashing death of ‘Ritual Of Alchemy’ or the clandestine horrors of ‘Blood And Greed’ with its ominous opening chords. This EP just revels in its own rotting waste, a primordial soup of fierce gnashing that dishes out the vile instrumental title track and culminates in the closing ‘Imperio de Sangre’, which begins in almost doomy fashion.

However, the main theme of Mangled’s debut EP is striking death-thrash that is malicious to its core and delivers a bass tone that literally sounds like the devilish hooves of the four horsemen of the apocalypse galloping up your driveway. Thank you Chile for once again serving up a tumultuous treat.

Neil Arnold

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