from "Ancient Grave Ascension", released November 1, 2018
“Ancient Grave Ascension” is a prime example of all those qualities. It’s stunningly vicious and produced in a way that causes it to strike with raw, overpowering force. The speed of the music and the rapidly veering changes that occur within it contribute to its success as a full-bore adrenaline rush. And it also proves to be highly addictive.

The song’s addictive qualities, and the first sign of the band’s songwriting skill, are revealed immediately. The track begins with a brutally stomping riff, a massively mauling bass line, and bursts of machine-gun snare work that seize attention. It gets stuck in the head damned fast, but an abrasively shrieking solo cuts the intro short and signals the onslaught of double-bass thunder, slashing and slithering guitar work, and gruesome guttural vocals.

The song continues to push the destructiveness into the red zone, with the sound of the battering snare drum becoming even more livid and the riffing even more maniacal. At times, it sounds like you’ve been dropped into an active war-zone, with eruptions of heavy-caliber weaponry merging into a wall of obliterating sound. It’s full-throttle mayhem until the mid-point… when that highly infectious, skull-plundering sequence from the start returns, and becomes the prelude to a flesh-melting, lightning-fast solo.

From there, things erupt into a rising crescendo of violence with riffs that buzz like a hornet swarm and razor the flesh with rapidly-scissoring tones. The drum rhythms shift again and again, with everything combining to deliver a strafing run of explosive armament at the end. Listen to this once, and the odds are that the first thing you’ll want to do next is listen to it again."

(NO CLEAN SINGING)