The 16th album by extreme death metal legends
Cannibal Corpse
is their second with rhythm guitarist and longtime producer
Erik Rutan
. While there was little evidence of his aesthetic influence on 2021's
Violence Unimagined
, here he restores the band's raw, unruly, unfiltered core sound. Forsaking their usual exhaustive focus on the creation of catchy, meaty riffs, this record is looser yet more aggressive, if that's possible. It is so anarchic at times, the dramatic tension threatens to descend into complete disorder, but it somehow manages to stagger along the razor's edge between metal and noise. ~ Thom Jurek