Second album from Universally Estranged is a typically weird one: a wild-eyed, tendril-vomiting glob of death metal that has its sound in the sewer and its mind in the stars. While you might have expected the band to dive even deeper into sci-fi madness, ‘Dimension Of Deviant Clusters’ actually demonstrates a degree of calculating restraint, leaning hard on vast, slurping riffs and for the most part letting the strange raygun FX linger at the edges like hideous interdimensional beings squirming to get through the cracks between their realm and ours. Every once in a while this interference becomes more overt, but while these moments are fascinating in themselves it’s perhaps more unnerving to have them lurking at the periphery and presenting an indeterminate future threat rather than one requiring immediate fight-or-flight response. The overall result is both thrilling and disgusting: familiar and yet undeniably aberrant, like human skin bulging and contorting as it struggles to contain the vile alien form over which it has been draped.