Feeding the Abscess

Martyr have returned with another brilliant technical death metal album. It is difficult to explain how this music sounds because there is so much variation in the music, for example, in "Lost In Sanity", there's death riffs, jazz riffs, even a fast orchestra-type melody for like 5 seconds in the middle of the song that comes out of nowhere. The only other band that comes to mind that even remotely sounds like this would be Gorguts, and even then only in the song structure; the vocals, drums obviously being much different.

The guitars on this album are amazing, they play some insanely technical and sometimes very simple riffs that meld perfectly together. A perfect example would be "Nameless, Faceless, Neverborn", which starts out with some extremely technical riffs, fingers flying all over the fret board, and then slows it down seemingly out of nowhere into this groovy riff, fucking brilliant. The drums are also great, and on this album much faster then on their previous releases. The bass is clear and as is typical Martyr style, play some very technical stuff.

The only downfall of this album would be the lyrics. I've always enjoyed Martyr's lyrics but some of them on this album seem a little juvenile. For example on Feast of Vermin, "Now smile and shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up!" Kinda ridiculous.

I suggest picking it up, though which is typical with this kind of metal, it takes a while to get used to.