Beneath The Massacre are one of those bands for whom having absolutely no chill whatsoever is actually quite endearing. A whopping eight years since 2012’s Incongruous, the Canadian tech-death machine remain an exercise in surgically-precise, noisy brutality. With lyrical takedowns of capitalism, anti-intellectualism and populism, the passage of time hasn’t dulled the nuclear-hot fire in their bellies, either, and songs like Rise Of The Fearmonger, Autonomous Mind and Bottom Feeders are double-doses of musical fury and head-popping anger. The riffs are satisfyingly complex, and the vocals never get anywhere near clean. True, it does get a touch one-paced after a while, and the flat production of the relentless double-bass drumming takes away some of their power when they should a...
