DYING FETUS - Reign Supreme
July 4, 2012, 12 years ago
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You just gotta give a bang of the head and a throw of the horns to Maryland’s DYING FETUS, surviving a crazy amount of lineup changes and witnessing the entire birth of a much-maligned microgenre that they themselves inspired, heavily. But while I don’t know one single metalhead who will admit to enjoying “slam” metal, everyone I know enjoys a good Dying Fetus jam. So, they’re doing something right and here on their seventh release, they keep doing exactly what they do best: insanely technical guitar riffs, high-speed blasting, huge grooves, and a love of pushing the limits of death/grind (check out the machine-gun riffing of ‘In The Trenches’ or the fast-finger licks and unbelievably speedy double bass runs of ‘Devout Atrocity’ to see how they’re even pushing their own limits). Apart from those eyebrow-raising moments, they’re not doing anything on this album they haven’t done before, but they’re proving here as a three-piece (like on last album) that they’ve got it nailed down pat, regardless of who is in the band or of what else is happening in the metal world. Dying Fetus reign supreme within their own world once again.
