And such is the case. It's full on death-metal, with demonic roaring, ridiculously fast riffing and the occasional sudden guitar squeal.

"Inception" is all of 17 seconds long and immediately gives the album an extra mark out of ten by ending in one of the most hilarious belches I've ever heard.

"Merciless Ignorance" is an epic by comparison, verging on a whole two minutes. It becomes obvious by this point that they're aiming to be as 'brutal' as possible, and in this they largely succeed. Certainly I've never heard drums being hit quite as hard for a while.

"Laceration" offers something of a diversion, by which I probably shouldn't mean diversion as it isn't that different- just a little more mid-tempo, with some riffs and guitar licks that remind me a little of Carcass (one of the very best bands of the genre, and quite possibly a band these guys are trying to emulate- while out-brutalising and out-heavying them of course).

And on it goes - some minor variations, here and there, but fast and furious all the way through, except for some strange ambient effects (with footsteps) on "The Abortive Becoming" and (yes, you guessed it) a bit of quiet guitar noodling at the start of the final track, "A Perfect Casket".

This isn't bad at all for this sort of music, which frequently produces swathes of copycat bands (then again so do most genres). At least the death-metal roaring and belching is consistent - they're not trying to go all bombastic with switched raw/clean twin vocal styles, nor are they trying to show people just how many different scales they can run through each minute. They're just going 'straight for the jugular' to coin one of many cheesy phrases, and the guitar work is tighter than the Chancellor.

It's not something I'd listen to very often, but on the occasion when I want to listen to this sort of music, I can well imagine reaching for this CD again.