The Unbearable Darkness of Being

With an intense sound that is as taut and visceral as it is complex and claustrophobically intimate, Damim offer anything but a straightforward listen. Their new album, the suitably nihilistically titled A Fine Game Of Nil, exudes confidence, comfortably straddling several branches of extreme metal while remaining crushingly heavy. Songs such as In A Language They Understand, Something For The Weakened and Body Is Broken set their foundations upon the precision of technical death metal, bombarding the listener with their twisting aggression while offering progressive flourishes, instrumental interludes, thrash touches and a dose of blackened, apocalyptic foreboding.

Though the band will be new to some, the album is actually a long-overdue addition to a, Damim started life under the shorter - and less search engine-friendly - name ‘Dam’ in the late 90s.