You always had a sense that Job For A Cowboy's Jony Davis had something about him that set him apart from the moribund masses of guttural roar. Now the only remaining member of the dark technical metallers, there was a hint of what that talent could produce on last year's Gloom EP but that was an amuse bouche compared to this main course- the band's third album proper- that is rich, rewarding and deeply satisfying. Far more accomplished than the band's previous releases, Demonocracy represents several significant steps forward but you should not mistake " accomplished" for any suggestion that they have lost any of their brutality or technical precision. Not a bit of it; what Demonocracy does show however is a band that use brutality as part of their overall aural assault rather than it being its centrepiece; this is indeed progress.
01 Children Of Deceit 02 Nourishment Through Bloodshed 03 Imperium Wolves 04 Tongueless And Bound 05 Black Discharge 06 The Manipulation Stream 07 The Deity Misconception 08 Fearmonger 09 Tarnished Gluttony