First time I played this I was only half paying attention. Thought it was some solid if fairly unamazing grindy stuff. Was prepared to make some laboured gag comparing their ‘Grindcore’ with Phobia’s ‘Grind Core’ of last year. It wouldn’t really have worked out, but it would have been a hook. An angle. Or something. Second time I played this I had my earphones in and was out on a walk. It seemed better. Then the third fourth and fifth times it seemed better as well. A lot of the time it is some solid if fairly unamazing grindy stuff, though. They put their foot down, the riffs pour forth and the vocals roar incessantly. But then there’s some other stuff, too. Chopped up thrash and death moments. The odd Capitalist Casualties inflection. The savage, limb-from-limb deconstruction to be found in ‘Quit’. And while I wouldn’t put them up there with top-flight grind acts like Phobia or Watchmaker or Kill The Client circa their first couple of albums, I’d still say this was a more than satisfactory debut which marks Unrest out as ones to keep a swollen eye out for.