The lastest record of Denmark-based Cabal is a suffocating, smartly crafted descent into deathcore brutality that occasionally stumbles into predictability, but does so with enough conviction and creativity to leave a mark.
Despised Icon’s “Shadow Work” is the kind of album that doesn’t just demand your attention. No, it seizes you by the throat and refuses to let go until you’re left gasping for air, bruised but exhilarated. This is deathcore as it should be: unapologetic, self-aware, …