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You want lava riffs? I'll give you lava riffs, enough lava riffs to choke on for a millennium. Don't let me tell ya I didn't warn you. One of the guys who was in Morbid Angel for the past 7 years has his own gig now, and it is a force to be reckoned with in the realms of "hyperspeed triple Linding" (or whatever the name of the dive was from 'Back To School') styled metal. They basically take what Morbid angel has done and upped the ante a bit. Super human speed factor is the norm here, and it's all played with ferocity and intent on doing damage to your central nervous system and those close enough to hear it. Speed of light Lovecraft-influenced guitar riffs, bumblebee-with-trigger double bass, and guttural vocals that sound powerful, rather than sounding like a grunting from a orangutan on PCP. My only complaint is that it has none of those slow, 'let's bend the fuck and vibrato the living daylights out of your low A sharp tuning' bits. You know, the Trey Asteroth doom parts, and the slow, swampy, creepy musical interludes that separate the songs a bit (aka Were The Slime Live, Nile's To Dream Of Ur). But still, it's is up there as one of the best, if not thee best CD's to come out of this genre this year. In a sea of sub par bands clogging up the mags and webzines, there are a few from this genre that will stand tall above the rest and influence another legion of bands. This is one of them, joining Nile, and Morbid Angel on that altar-that-cannot-be-described because when you finally took that wrong turn on that old Massachusetts suburban street and happen to run into it by chance,and its so horrible, scary, and indescribable...but when it's over, you don't have any recollection on what happened. But for some reason beyond comprehension, you keep going back to see if what you thought you saw was true and it's no longer there. And then the obsession turns to madness of that one night..............ok, stop now. Here Greg, have a valium. What flavor? Pancreas. Ok you had enough to drink, your outa here now, you've changed in the last week what did you see to see that night on that old...........?