Remember the name. This is the next break-out act. The next band to emerge out of the primordial soup of extreme metal and drag their rotting carcass into the mainstream. The cheer that welcomed their announcement for next year’s bloodstock was louder than for any other band. This is a bruising heavyweight album full of slow incisive riffs that rip through the soul. It realises that metal is at its best when everything is stripped back and just the essential ingredients remain. It is intrusive, aggressive and brims with nihilistic intent. Pure heaviness distilled into an anti-establishmentarian attitude that appeals to the disfranchised masses. This is the sound of the downtrodden and the pissed off and they are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

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