Decline & Fall

and make their return as on , their first recording since 2001's . Although the album finds playing the eight-string guitar he's used with , the extended range is used to imbue the album with a guttural menace rather than the dissonant complexity of his more melodic solo project. Although it's been over a decade since the pair have written new material, they've effortlessly slipped back into their old ways, delivering an EP of sludgy, grime-covered industrial metal that feels like a promising preview for their first post-breakup full-length, . ~ Gregory Heaney