This Boston band takes British crust sounds and fuses them with thrashing aggression. This manages to not sound like early Carcass. They use more punk speed when the song throws itself into the pit. Their vocalist gives more of a punk yell to things. I prefer the more deliberate chug of "Cryptic Remains" over the more rushed punk explosion of the second song. While it retains the raw urgency needed to get the point across this album is well-recorded. Perhaps the drum could come up a little in the mix but aside from that the powerful guitar tone works well.
"Radition Sickness" has an effective moshing groove, until they pour the speed on, this is the creative battle this band fights with itself. The chorus could stand a little more hook. "Medusa' is not as catchy as the Anthraxz song with the same name. It is more deliberate which works better than most. "Fear No Evil" works as a hyper-aggressive thrashing, her vocals continue to cry out with a uniform abandon. "Chalice of Vision" raced by with angry guitars in such a manner that it blurred into the background so I had to give it a second listen. The same could be said for "Broken Mirrors". At first, the riff has more bit until they give in to their need for speed. There is a cool riff amid the blitzed chaos, but the rule here is "Cool riffs alone does not a good song make"
The last song opens with a burly bass line. They bust into the kind of raw thrash-tinged punk that has dominated this album and it works well enough. Overall this album could have stood to have had a little more melodic layer to keep the songs from bearing such a uniform feel, but instead, they opt to work off the angry energy alone which is pretty effective in its own right so I will give this album an 8.5
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