With an intro of some kind of demoniacal possession (sampled from "The Exorcist" series, I’m told) and the proclamation "They do it rather well, don’t you think?", prepare to get a lesson in sheer brutality from these Canadian monsters. This is the second full length release of the band,the debut being "Blasphemy Made Flesh". The band have taken their level of intensity one level,heck,many levels upward, and boast of a much better production too. Vocals are mainly low,really low growls with the occasional harsh rasps and screamings.The guitars have a real thick and heavy sound to it.Composed of grinding riffs and intense tremelo picking,and played very well indeed.There are quite a few solos present too, which though being musically relevant,sound just a little bit too melodious and take away a bit of the brutality. But it’s the drums which really carry this beast forward. Not only can Flo Mounier out-blastbeat most of the others in this business,he’s bass drum precision is outstanding. In fact you will not get to hear blast beats in the conventional sense of the word. What he plays here are called "hyper blasts",where the snare is attacked relentlessly with full on double kicks (instead of the conventional single bass kicks). The song structures are totally non linear. no traces of verse-prechorus-chorus stuff to be found here! With arrangements that border on the insane and added with the fact that hardly any riff is played the same way twice (be it the drumming or the guitar riffing) this is not for the folks who prefer the ear candy variety of death metal like Six Feet Under. Trying to single out songs is a damn hard task as all of them rule in their own rights.The pick of the lot has to be "Phobophile". with a piano (gasp!yes!) intro which gives way to some quiet bass noodlings,before all fucking hell breaks loose,this song has some of the fastest blasting i have ever heard. "Graves of the Fathers" and "Benedictine Convulsions" are 2 really technical numbers and sound really tight too. "Slit yer Guts" features some prominent bass work. All in all,a devastating piece of art,rounded off by the closing proclamation "Now go home and cry to your mama"….Brilliant!