Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

After the relentless and sharply twisting and turning "Denouement" from 2012, this band has refined their art into a more sinister and ominous form. The Suffocation-style schizophrenic directional shifts are nearly absent and in their place are the doomiest parts of Asphyx and Demigod if they were interpreted by some strange modernist classical acts.

The main form of attack is still the dissonant tremolo riffing favored by most bands in this movement, but here there's a sense of perpetual descent, these angular chords wailing as they descend into the negative space of thundering abstraction from the previously noted doom-death elements. Song construction is in the linear-narrative approach akin to groups like The Chasm, however portraying an image of surging energy descendant into entropic, funereal decay rather than a warrior's psycho-mythic journey. Instrumentation is surprisingly technical and would make likely teachers Gorguts and Pavor proud, with each member integrating their skills so well into a song's flow they nearly pass by unnoticed. Among the strongest albums of 2013.

P.S. You would do well to check out Denouement as well. Also incredibly fucking awesome.