Formed in 2011 in the gutters of New Jersey, tech death metal juggernaut Cognitive are set to unleash their fourth album, Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction, so settle in and prepare for your senses to be pummeled into a pulp. Opening with “Eniac,” there is no beating around the bush from these veterans. Jarring, groove-saturated death metal is the order of the day, the kind that will make your neck move right before kicking your head off its shoulders. Cutting their teeth touring with everyone from Fit For An Autopsy and Waking The Cadaver to Lorna Shore and Wormed, these brutalists have used that experience to hone their sound into something quite punishing. From the pummeling drums of AJ Viana to the potent mix of foul, guttural pig squeals and harsher, raspier roars courtesy ...