{"id":1204,"date":"2011-09-25T20:50:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-25T20:50:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T20:50:23","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Tormenta &#8211; Tormented souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tormenta are a new band from an area of the world not known for Heavy metal music &#8211; they hail from the Maldives.  Despite this, these guys certainly know how to make brutal thrash metal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this should be called an album or an EP.  With only 6 songs and 28 minutes of music, its nowhere near long enough to be an album, but its a bit too long to be an EP &#8211; it falls somewhere in between.  Even the band seem confused as its referred to as both an album and an EP.  I&#8217;ll give them the benefit of the doubt and call it a very good value EP.<\/p>\n<p>Right from the start with first track, Judgement, we get screaming\/growling guitars, pounding drums and a good solid bass sound &#8211; really good thrash.  The vocals fit the music well too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d describe the music as old-school thrash &#8211; Slayer, Megadeth, Sepultura and Lamb of god are all obvious influences.<\/p>\n<p>A great debut from Tormenta.<\/p>\n<p>Track listing:<\/p>\n<p>1. Judgement<br \/>\n2. Hours Of Darkness<br \/>\n3. Illumi Nation<br \/>\n4. Defy<br \/>\n5. Tormented Souls<br \/>\n6. Hanged, Drawn and Quartered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tormenta are a new band from an area of the world not known for Heavy metal music &#8211; they hail from the Maldives. Despite this, these guys certainly know how to make brutal thrash metal. I&#8217;m not sure if this should be called an album or an EP. With only 6 songs and 28 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}