The eighth full-length effort from the San Diego-based goregrind institution,
Death Atlas
arrives four years after 2015's
Anthropocene Extinction
. Continuing to chip away at the foundations of death metal with a lethal mix of punitive grindcore and grotesque animal rights-forward lyrics,
delivers an apoplectic blast of sonic brutality and marks the studio debut for new bass player
Olivier Pinard
(
Cryptopsy
). ~ James Christopher Monger