These guys have to be the most extreme band on Profound Lore. This completes a trilogy they started back in 2-15, but the lyrics are snarled in such a way that they are like cutting your years with broken glass, so there is no way to make them out, just a fine layer of hatred draped over the intense thrashing blast. There is more songwriting employed here than in the one-minute spasm of screaming grind-core dishes out, though that would be the genre most fitting unless you want to call this grind thrash. It is hard to believe that there is more nuance on the opening track than what happens on "Three Degrees of Darkness".
The solos are certainly Slayer-influenced, and they are more metal guys than they are punk, which further distances them from your typical grindcore band. The title track is more like vicious death metal, but with more feral vocals that are more pained than the typical death metal gutturals. Riff-wise wise they have certainly heard a few Cannibal Corpse albums. There is an even more frenzied attack on your ears on "Heaping Pile of Electrified Gore". They are more deliberate with "Dissident Amputator." The vocals hold a little more purpose, but not by much. It feels more malicious and darker in its intentions.
This album is produced like a great deal of early death metal. "Interment Orgy" is violent but almost too much so that it sacrifices the nuance it did possess. They continue down a beserk, lacerating path after this one, but rein it in enough so that the thrashing riffs come through to keep the song. together."Lamentation of Weeping Wounds" slows down the needed fraction for it to find its hook. The vocals are spewed in a manner that sounds like Gullom being disemboweled. The last song reminds me of the first Deicide album. This is heavy as fuck, but since it's rooted in metal still remembers to cram it into an actual song 90 percent of the time, which is why this album is getting a 9. If death metal no longer seems heavy give this album a spin.
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