If ‘Cave’ was a brisk but enjoyable workout, ‘Glacial Reign’ ups the goddamn ante to such an extent that only the real competitors need bother showing their faces. The solid-built power violence backbone remains sturdily in place, but the flesh atop has been bulked out to grotesque, steroid-pumped proportions to the point where Mind Eraser are less a band and more some glowering beast, purpose-bred for nothing but fighting and stamping their many foes into the dust. The short, violent outbursts are dosed with some savage Hellhammer-style metal that reigns in the savage brevity with slow, doom-laden poundings and leaves the listener wondering whether the Neanderthal-worship of yore was merely a testing ground for far darker possibilities…
