Gallic deathsters Benighted were never exactly a feast for the brain, it's all about the furious tempo, the sudden bass drops and implausible vocal contortions. 2007's fifth full-length 'Icon' was a perfect, accessible feast – pitched somewhere between Devourment and Aborted for those put off by the former's ridiculous rumble and the latter's descent into meatheaded thug-4-life hardcore posturing. Appropriately enough, sixth full-length 'Asylum Cave' features guest vocals from both, like stylistic angels and devils perched on the band's collective shoulders.Balancing out the unrestrained deathgrind pummelling with some syrupy licks and tar-thick grooves, and tediously inspired by Austrian dungeon dad Josef Fritzl, 'Asylum Cave' is a satisfying dose of metalheaded brutality, with just enough melody, surprisingly atmospherics and adrenal gland-milking mosh parts to make it more than a simple endurance test – and therefore detested by the monobrowed underground brutal death elite.
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