Cranial Incisored (Indonesia) are aiming to be a mixture of Cenotaph (Turkey) like grind with the technical eccentricity of Cephalic Carnage. Ambitious as that may sound, the guitarist does a great job of coming up with some complicated riff structures and weird time signatures. In fact, some of this stuff is so convoluted I initially thought they were playing total crap! It took quite a few devoted listens to the opener “Felo De Se” before things started to make sense. But it is the drumming that needs to be stepped up a notch. The bad drum sound doesn’t help: the snare can hardly be heard. The music is so blatantly influenced by Cenotaph with the all the split second acceleration and deceleration going on, I have a feeling the drummer is having a tough a time just keeping up with the pace of changes. The guttural vocals fit in nicely with the music and the bassist seems to be having a whale of a time; check out the slapping abound on “Popped Off The Hook”. Most of the songs are quite short and I hope they rectify that next time around. Cranial Incisored seem to be on the same evolution level as Cenotaph’s “Voluptuously Minced” and they can become big names soon, provided they practice enough!