That the opening track here is titled ‘Rotting In Excrement’ should tell you all you need to know about these Californian freaks, for whom subtlety is presumably the dirtiest word imaginable. Ugly, crust-mired, doom-streaked death metal is the order of the day, with the band barrelling through four gnarled ‘n’ clotted tracks that bring to mind the likes of Autopsy, Bolt Thrower, Coffins and Celtic Frost. The vocals sound like a shit-clogged sewer pipe getting ready to burst and the guitars are tuned so low they’ll make your hemorrhoids tingle, and it all adds up to form something desperately unsavoury that’s more inclined to give you pinkeye than kick down any fresh new doors of perception.
