These Belfast groovecore machinists first came our attention back at the turn of the decade, when they exploded, phoenix-like, from the ashes of ultimately ill-fated Norn Iron death metal hopefuls Donum Dei before, like so many others, having their momentum unexpectedly stymied by the pandemic which crippled the Überverse later the same year. When we emerged into the post-Covid era, the band did equally so with renewed determination and vigour, quickly rebuilding momentum with an attention-grabbing debut album – before, the brakes suddenly were slammed on again with one of those small matters which plagues so many acts, especially in their formative years… a dramatic line-up change enforced by the departure of not one but both of their guitarists (thus, in the process, breaking the last connection with the formative oufit referenced above). Now, they have re-emerged once again, like a brutally-armoured butterfly from a suitably metalicized cocoon, with an album that just demands to be heard and heeded…
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