INSINERATEHYMN (USA) – ‘Disembodied’ LP (Orange splatter)

Clearer, cutting, and more crushing, Disembodied doesn’t so much as dispense with the previous album’s style as it simply sharpens it to a dangerous degree. Indeed, Insineratehymn give a masterclass in ’90s death metal, from the spiraling vortexes of early Tampa to the sewage to come from New York, on to eerie emanations from Europe and the dissonance at the dawn of the new millennium. The band bend those classic tropes in a variety of ways, all of which bespeak their own identity: malevolently atmospheric, savagely urgent, classically styled death metal delivered with deadly effectiveness and memorability.