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Violence Unimagined

METAL BLADE

Florida’s death metal indignitaries gouge out a new classic

YOU ALREADY WROTE Fucked With A Knife. What violence is there left to imagine, lads? Album number 15 doesn’t detail any new, exciting ways to remove someone’s scrotum using just a fidget spinner and elbow grease. Instead, Florida’s death metal daddies have weaned one of their most wretched, brutal babies this side of the millennium.

At a spews forth 11 songs of stupidly guttural, low-end extremity. George Fisher’s iconic barks tie everything down for the rhythm section that refuses to die, Alex Webster and Paul Mazurkiewicz flitting from militaristically precise blasts to mid-tempo stalking on . It’s exhilarating stuff; ’s intro fill is vintage Paul, and he doesn’t loosen his grip on the sticks until that final percussive push.