In time for the 15th anniversary of their album Dead In My Arms, returning blackened deathcore outfit Carnifex is back with Graveyard Confessions and, having now trimmed back to a four-piece and had two years to fine-tune their deathcore filth, the band are firing on all cylinders. Opening with the suitably black-souled title track, the tone for the album is set as frontman Scott Ian Lewis leads the band through a brutal opening. After a frantic start, one thing you can’t accuse the deathcore heavyweights of and that is taking their foot off the gas. “Pray For Peace” is a symphonics-laced onslaught, true to the Carnifex formula but, this time, it feels like there is extra beef injected into things. Maybe trimming things down to a quartet has given their horror-drenched sound room to breath...