✦✦✦✧ This is some feral crusty mayhem, now even more laced with post-punk nastiness. I finally hear the hint of a sound for the band that isn’t immediately reminiscent of someone else. (If hard pressed, I’d name The Haunted, Nails, and of course Dying Fetus, in equal measure.)

★★★☆ This album both suffers and benefits from feeling like a slightly higher brow Black Dahlia Murder. It’s refreshing and rare to hear the refinement in this brand of death metal, but it also softens the cutting edge a wee bit. Still, this is a frenetic and powerful 43 minutes, and a joy to hear from cover to cover.