More teeth-grinding, balls-to-the-wall technical death metal. These Floridian boys have finally snapped out of that “a new album every six years” thing.
A 72 minute single track from Varggoth of Nokturnal Mortem. There are magnificent moments, and lots of scratch-the-surface-with-a-rusty-meat-hook filler.
With the exception of a couple laggers, every tune here is balls-out garage punk to smash things to, slam into people to, or get dangerously drunk in public to.
Mike Scott is at the top of his songwriting craft with a crack studio band, combining the intimacy of his first solo album with a touch of “The Big Music.”
Buoyed by a languorous fluidity befitting a global undersea current, the warm, moist, melodies of Marine Research take listeners on a long distance float.