This Spanish duo carves out its third full-length of grime-filled death metal. The vocals are at a low nasty gurgle. They belch forth unintelligible growls that sound like demons drowning in your toilet. The strength of the band lies in their dense riffing. Everything else has an odd atmosphere, but still a raw and unhinged sound. "Occlusive" is like slow grindcore. It sounds like death metal that sank into hot lava and was being burned alive. They take more chances and delve into pure weirdness with "Enthronos Wormwomb" which even wanders off into this jazzy section, though the main heavy riff has an odd angular thing going on, so at this point in the album you begin to hear who these guys are when you peel away the distortion. \This makes it their best song so far.
At two minutes "Baleful Profusion' feels like it is a bridge to another song rather than a free-standing song in its own right. They come out of this and go into a more aggressive stomping style of death metal, that is similarly driven by double bass to the more commonplace death metal classics, though the song is coated in bizarre. There is a riff that sounds like the verse riff to Mr Bungle's "My Ass is on Fire" in their song 'Oxide Veils" before they blast off into a more full-throttle style of death metal. There are some fun twists and turns on this album, I will give these guys credit for that.
There is a darker more surreal darkness opening the gateways of "Choirs of None". They close things with a more straightforward and sewer-haunting version of Death Metal. Midway into the song it begins to get possessed by the kind of chaos that has been creeping around the bulk of this album., I will give this album an 8 , I appreciate taking death metal in this direction.
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