A second album from Turkish brutal death metallers Inhuman Depravity, one that arrives seven years after their debut ‘Nocturnal Carnage By The Unholy Desecrator’ and continues more or less where that debut left off. The bands bone shattering brutality is captured superbly through the riffing and inhuman animalistic vocals of Lucy Ferra who joined the band after the debut was released, I believe. This bunch of deathsters knows exactly how to pen a monstrous riff as the album kicks off with ‘Obsessed With The Mummified’ and immediately they unleash a machine gun peppering via the drum work alongside the grisly and occasionally grotesque vocal tone that I really liked. As indecipherable as the lyrics may be you cannot deny the unmitigated horror meted out on every song through its sheer bombarding annihilation.

‘Mescannibalismus’, which is hell of a mouthful to pronounce, if you excuse the pun, continues the demolition as here we get plenty of references to Suffocation for the outright bludgeoning and Dying Fetus for the technical aspects the majority of the songs wield. The band hops around globally on its influences but never stays with any particular one crafting their own unique deathly persona as I scrawled down acts like early Aborted, Sinister, Monstrosity as a few I felt the band was reminiscent of.

‘Burnt To Exist’ is pretty standard death metal fodder, well played, battering and hugely dense but it is the slower tunes that grabbed my attention the most like ‘Whole Body Radiation’. That miasmic sludge filled slurry that grisly death metal can have is laced with some intricate guitar work that shifts the band away from the straight death metal by saturating the song in subtleties and bolstered by the excellent double kick fluxing. There is a chaos threading through the album too, not due to technical wizardry, but primarily down to how the songs chop and change abruptly.

‘Death 22’ blasts in with homicidal glee, murdering the listener with its sonic massacring as the tune even unveils what I felt was some Voivod like guitar twinges just in case you weren’t already blown away by the bands skilful attack. Closing the album is ‘Beyond Rhythm Zero’ as here we get outright Suffocation worship, the machine gunning tempos sitting astride the flexing guitar dynamics that owe plenty to the technical side of the genre without being submerged in fret gymnastics for the sake of it. The song is loaded with riff changes and if one thing sticks in your mind when listening to this release it is the copious riffs and deluging tempo dynamics ensuring Turkey’s Inhuman Depravity will annihilate your meagre existence through deadly, barbaric and highly effective death metal.

(8.5/10 Martin Harris)

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