✦✦✦✧ This is Gorgut’s “Catch Thirty-Three,” an experimental, progressive, masterwork. This is not an easy listen, but it is dense and brutal and staggering.

★★★☆ A low three-stars for this album (which is still higher praise than I’d give any other Gorguts album). The technically excellent material does repeatedly suffer from its bridge-too-far scope demands. That said, “Enemies Of Compassion” is perhaps the most brutal 7 minutes of metal I’ve heard all year.