Watch your back, Dimmu Borgir. It looks as though the North Bay’s Stomach are out for your “Most Syllables in an Album Title” crown. This album has two personalities.... in one corner is pure, undiluted thrash—the kind high school kids wearing Venom shirts would have made circa 1986.... some tracks charge full steam ahead with intensity rivaling some of the finest material from those denim-vested, shaggy-haired glory days.
Sitting opposite its irate twin is the seemingly more thoughtful side, represented by slower, more plodding riffs....
Leads and catchy double-bass runs are found in abundance, and Judd Mason impresses quite mightily as a lead singer, while Kent Varty possesses a death growl as effective (and intelligible!) as has ever been heard.
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