Possibly the best band to grace the modern-day hardcore scene are back and having at it with their second full-length: another glowering masterpiece that should force 95% of current acts to meekly shut up shop and the rest to pull their fucking socks up. ‘Sexless//No Sex’ doesn’t derogate far from the band’s tried n’ tested pattern – a lung-scorching mix of medically-themed hardcore, grind and power violence drawing from the likes of Crossed Out, Despise You and Discordance Axis – but somehow seems more keenly honed than ever before, each cruel note, every mutant roar and every ear-splitting crack of the snare where it is for a goddamn reason. From heel-digging dirge to lightspeed blasts, each of the 20 tracks drips with blistering, futility-hewn rage, the likes of ‘Cancer’ and ‘Here//Alone’ despondent to the point of utter collapse but gritting their teeth and forging on regardless, unblinking eyes fixed firmly on the finish line and the illusory respite it offers.
