Originally published in Verbicide issue #5

Carpe Diem features no “metally” guitar solos and no obnoxious tough-guy sounding vocals; just the painfully powerful cries of Grady Avenell, punishing rhythms, and aggressively haunting, crunchy guitar with lots of bends. My favorite song is track four, “BATS.” The first minute-plus is a thumping bass drum and bass guitar riff with squealing guitar feedback which breaks into four minutes of adrenaline. To quote Monty Burns, “Excellent.”

(Revelation Records, PO Box 5232, Huntington Beach, CA 92615)