Well, well, well, look who we have here. One of the legendary death metal bands from the '90s, one of the innovators, one of the bands who are partly responsible for death metal being an incredibly over-saturated genre for the past ten years (don't worry, we don't hold it against ya, guys). So it's time for full-length number four, after almost a decade since their last full-length. Thing is, for me, Suffocation really reached their peak with their last release, the Despise The Sun EP. On that, the band had really memorable songs, something obviously lacking in death metal. Unfortunately, Souls To Deny doesn't grab me in quite the same way. But listening to the intensity with which the guys play on these eight songs, you can tell they don't really give a flyin' freak what I think. They're here to play harsh, mean-sounding technical death metal, the way they damn near invented it. So what we have here is a disc that by no means does anything new, and unfortunately, at this juncture in time, doesn't really stand out too much; while listening to it, you could imagine it's the new one from any number of modern death bands. But no doubt these guys have a technical flair that many could only wish for, and a sense of heaviness that none shall defy. A Suffocation album will always blow their peers out of the water. Just don't get that cover art confused with the latest one from Dismember (seriously, put 'em side by side and get yer mind blown; I did it and couldn't stop laughing).