Maybe the heaviest band I've heard so far in this newer wave of very cavernous, guttural and pummeling death metal bands that are getting traction in the underground right now. And with so many death metal records shooting for this really clean, robotic sound where everything sounds very edited and digital, this is an absolute blessing for someone like me who really can't stand this type of production and prefers a majority of his music within this genre very ugly and bloodcaked. The production and playing on this record feels very organic but also visceral and hits you like a steamroller with crushingly dense riffs which are engulfed in a thick, smokey atmosphere. The band also goes full throttle, with track after track of monstrously sized ragers that do not let up for a single tangible moment, with the closest to a breather being the really slow, ten tonner of a breakdown in the middle of Noctemnania, or the small bit of ambience at the end of Sulfuric Sodomy. Now, I will say that this torture chamber-like approach threads on being almost to a fault, as listening to this record from front to back can get slightly tiresome and make listening to the music seem like trying to run a marathon with most of these songs being around 5 minutes in length. Luckily, this gets a little dampened by the fact that the record overall is just around half an hour long and doesn't overstay its welcome. Other than that, this is pretty much a solid metal record to my ears and one that I enjoy thoroughly every time I revisit it.
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