Life’s greatest traumas are the ones you were never really expecting, which hit like unseen shrapnel to the gut on some idle Wednesday afternoon. It’s fitting, then, that the latest EP from Kentucky brutalists Knocked Loose – A Tear In The Fabric Of Life – arrives with the unannounced unsubtlety of an 18-wheeler jackknifing through the red light on some icy, isolated crossroads, leaving roughly as much wreckage in its wake. Cataclysmic opener Where Light Divides The Holler combines chest-crumpling hardcore and soul-searing death metal in characteristically thrilling fashion. God Knows cranks the severity, shifting focus from physical to psychological scars across a scourging soundscape that culminates in an inspired, unsettling sample of The Beach Boys’ God Only Knows....