Punk & HardcoreMetal
Self-released · 25 September 2026
Twenty-five minutes and twelve tracks, eight of which don’t reach two and a half minutes. “Open Vein” (1:04) and “Dopamine Wire” (1:38) open on textbook Swedish grindcore: HM-2 pedal guitars, vocals fighting their way out of the bottom of the mix and drums that push without looking back. It’s the band’s third full-length.
The record changes gear on track three. “Fault” (3:04) comes in on a thick Amphetamine Reptile bass line, sparse chords and a cowbell, Sebastian Campbell’s vocals take more space, and the closing stretch chains breakdowns and drum rolls into snaking guitars over Michael Dahlström’s blast beats. “Almost Intelligent” (2:12) adds mathcore riffs and a deathgrind section, and “Limbless” (1:04) moves from sped-up punk into Converge territory in exactly one minute.
“Tin Gloss” (2:00) is the track that sums the record up best: the double bass drum is there, so is exactly enough dissonance to keep it from sounding like a tribute, and it ends before the idea wears out. “Bloat Leech” (1:50) does the opposite in its second half and opens up bright chords you don’t hear anywhere else. It closes with “Meat World” (4:33), almost twice as long as anything else, with a saxophone at the end.
After “Tin Gloss”, tracks nine, ten and eleven — “False Self” (2:21), “Stranger” (2:03) and “Enable” (1:48) — reuse devices already presented without adding to them, and “Healer Lodge” (1:43) is a noise instrumental that serves as a breather and little else. The record has about thirteen minutes of ideas and a dozen of variations on those ideas. The saxophone at the end, meanwhile, has for years been the predictable gesture with which hardcore turns solemn.
Twelve tracks, twenty-five minutes, self-released, 25 September.
Rating: 7.9/10
Text by Marçal Bonastre