Violence leaks from every seam of 200 Stab Wounds’ claret-stained second album. Viscera pulses from the clenched fists of unflinching opener Hands Of Eternity. Congealed gore drips the Gross Abuse’s pickaxe attack. Hammer smashed bones spike through the ten ton riffs of the title-track. But the sonic psycopathy is marshalled with surgical precision this time out. If 2021’s Slave To The Scalpel often felt like the work of sickos happy to luxuriate in the rot, these nine songs are the result years on the road learning the fastest way to any listener’s heart is right through the ribcage. Much has been made of shared values between the worlds of death metal and hardcore recently, with the Cleveland killers at the serrated edge of that chaotic crossover. Rather than stitching tw...