Fit For an Autopsy : "Oh What the Future Holds"

 The opening track feels about typical for what to expect from modern death metal. Is it also death core and metal core, yes. This can be heard in the break down like riff. Which still works for me as it is not done in a glue sniffing manner.  The second song is more what you expect from death metal, less melodic until we get to the solo section. I hope this is not the formula this album is going to live off. "Far From Heaven" switches it up and has more of a groove. The clean vocals float in but are in the background. The y way the vocals are layered on the chorus reminds me of Gojira. There is more of an epic thrashing groove to "In Shadows" that works well even if falling in the middle of the road in terms of extreme metal standards. 

"Two Towers" is almost more like the Deftones in terms how how the vocals float in. The machine give a machine-like precision to the chugs that hammer the heaviness back into place when things get more death metal again. They do give plenty of beat downs with their guitars if you are into that though they have enough groove to them.  "A Higher Level of Hate" falls into more of a mainstream metal chug and is much more straightforward.  Still in the realm of the more mainstream there is a Slayer like feel to the thrashing that unfolds on "Collateral Damage". This comes with a catchy groove to some of the clever riffs.

"Savages" marks another song where the innovation we heard on the first half of the album stands aside for more common place metal riffing. Similar could be said for "Conditional Healing" that relies on a heavy-handed guitar chug more than drawing you in with anything other than hyper aggression. They are polished at doing this, I just think there is more that can be brought to the table here. The album closes with 'the Man Who Was Not" which has more to it as a song and offers melody along with sung vocals in places. They break things up with ambiance which makes the more aggressive parts work better. This is really well done, and I like it more than I thought I would so I will go ahead and give this album a 9 despite more of the mainstream metal leaning as this album is what it is, and they do what they set out to. This is being released on Nuclear Blast.