Wow, this is incredible! The guitar leads sound extremely fresh in this style of metal. 2013 is shaping up to be a really good year for brutal death metal if this and the upcoming Defeated Sanity say anything.

That was surprisiny excellent. The sound is absolutrly perfect and the band is rich with ideas. I like the more traditional vocals with all the regular grind noises used for little add ons and special touches, as well as a level of slams which is not too many that they lose their effect, yet not too few that they seem shamed of them.

Spot on. The vocals of bdm are usually what draws me away from the music because I feel like it adds nothing to the value of the music itself. These vocals however, are abnormally heavier than traditional death metal vocals, which adds to the listening experience. I also like how the slams are not overused. Good shit.

Yes I agree! And the riffs change up from 'brutal' to more 'techy' which is quite nice aswell!

What does the 'slam" in their genre description indicate? I've heard the term, but I don't really know what separates it from other death metal beside the fact that it's super groovy, like Bolt Thrower and Jungle Rot, albeit in a different way.

SLAMS are also palm-muted riffs, but usually on the chromatic scale (as heard on Pantera “A New Level”) rather than single-note chugs. They are really more about creating a chunky texture than any kind of real melody or discernable “song” in the conventional sense. Basically, imagine tuning down to A or B and just kind of randomly playing power chords up and down the first 5 frets or so on the bottom strings- that’s more or less what slam is all about.
In terms of arrangement and overall songwriting, slam is more about stringing together one slam riff after the next, creating a relentless, crushing steamroller kind of feel. There’s really not much resembling a “rock song,” as opposed to deathcore, which uses more or less traditional rock song structures. Deathcore songs have verses, choruses, bridges, and use breakdowns as just that: an overt “here is the mosh part” kind of thing. As you can see from this song, it wouldn’t really be accurate to call the slam riffs breakdowns, because they aren’t breaking anything down– the essential characteristic of slam metal is that the whole song is nothing but slams.