review: Sensory Amusia -- brutal death metal from Australia

Sensory Amusia

Bereavement

Lacerated Enemy Records

20 August 2020

The world wide web of computers that communicate with each other says that a flight from here in Seattle takes a good 20 hours (or more) to Perth, Australia, where the action in extreme metal by Sensory Amusia takes place. Unlike the flights from Seattle to Perth, this recording is a swift 17 minutes. What can they do in 17 minutes? In one thousand and twenty seconds they manage to thread various styles of extremity for a mix-and-match, new-school blend of death. In this band’s interpretation of brutality they take things like deathcore’s ultra low bark, and tech-death's frenzy speed and million-words-a-minute-gargled-growl, and a certain heavy grooviness from djent/core/whatever for an exhibition in the art of juggling various brutalities. This goes in a familiar blasting way for fans of death metal, but has a feisty contemporary sensibility. Get your death metal mojo back. The time for Sensory Amusia is now.

SENSORY AMUSIA - Bereavement by Lacerated Enemy records