Lorna Shore. If you’ve heard of them, you’ll know they’ve been at the forefront of extreme metal for the past 5 years. If you haven’t heard of them, its about time you stopped living under a rock. Songs like Into the Hellfire and the Pain Remains trilogy really pushed the boundaries of what the human voice can achieve, and demonstrated instrumental prowess and song writing that brought a level of emotion that its hard to believe such aggressive music could achieve.

But now, 3 years after Pain Remains, they have returned to offer up a new masterclass in cinematic brutality. I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me is Lorna Shores fifth album, releasing on the 12th of September.

Opening with Prison Of Flesh, the New Jersey quintet brings the album in with brilliantly ominous synth strings. Building tension with rounds of machine gun like drum volleys, before exploding into a classic deathcore sound, peppered with choral chops that fade in and out. Prison Of Flesh serves as a great reminder of what Lorna Shore does best, and what to expect from the next nine songs, even managing to fit in some absolutely filthy vocal rips reminiscent of Into the Hellfire’s now infamous breakdown. This is followed by their first single off the album, Oblivion, a song that takes its inspiration from the sci-fi epic Interstellar. Forging an unforgiving rhythmic path at the hands of bassist Michael Yaeger and drummer Austin Archey, before slowing down with a brief respite of cosmic synth.