This band from Chicago is bringing it in a very legit fashion. They are dense and hammering with melodic bass playing and riffs that are hooky, not just beating your brains in. The technical aspects are kept in check, and what is impressive is how they pack what they do into three and four-minute songs. "Kill the Priest' does bring more of a full blasting Deicide-inspired decimation to your ears. But they leave room for the vocals. It is not as strong as the first two songs, but it still works for what it is.
"Nyarlathotep" dabbles in the Morbid Angel mythos of Sumerian magic, while offering a thundering double bass undercurrent to the very purposeful riffing. "Apoplectic Delirium" is a denser chug that features a wildly chaotic guitar solo being wanked over it. The first song that holds any trace of a black metal influence is "Covenant of Hate," and that is really only in the beginning. It is a more deliberate song than jsut a blast fest. Though midway through the song, the double bass does speed things up some. But there is a hooky thrash-like riff they return to that gives you something to latch onto.
"Mouth to Hell," however, does find them racing off to give into the need for speed. The vocals croak in a way that brings Immortal to mind. It does drop down into a more convincing groove in the song's third act. "Singularity" rumbles along at your typical death metal chug that is middle of the road for death metal. I will give this album a 9, as it gets the job done more often than not when it comes to the aggressive nature of the genre, while bringing you the riffs that hook you in and vocals that have form and function rather than jsut being an afterthought.
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