DECAPITATED - The Negation LP (Blue Vinyl)

The album goes by in a snap, which isn't a comment one hears often when talking about a full death metal record. As the listener we're given so much valuable fresh information and delight to immediately have to process, it seems like 5min have gone by and we're up to the daunting instrumental/title-track area and another bat of the eye propels us towards the vertiginous abyss that are the final seconds of 'The Empty Throne'. A slow languishing fade to black into the distance, 30min have gone by, the trance lets go of our consciousness and we're back on our two feet, in a room in front of a computer. Sober as ever. Top notch stuff. For this sort of death metal, it doesn't get a whole lot better.