One of death metal's best-kept secrets, Insineratehymn first appeared on Rotted Life with 2018's "A Moment in a Vision", an auspicious start, already evincing mastery of timeless death metal songcraft, A Moment in a Vision was but a signal of greater things to come for Insineratehymn. And that arrives with Disembodied, Insineratehymn's second album. Clearer, cutting, and more crushing, Disembodied doesn't so much as dispense with the previous album's style as it simply sharpens it to a dangerous degree. Indeed, Insineratehymn give a masterclass in '90s death metal, from the spiraling vortexes of early Tampa to the sewage to come from New York, on to eerie emanations from Europe and the dissonance at the dawn of the new millennium. The band bend those classic tropes in a variety of ways, all of which bespeak their own identity: malevolently atmospheric, savagely urgent, classically styled death metal delivered with deadly effectiveness and memorability. Graced with amazing cover artwork courtesy of Edgar Roldan and utterly throttling production, Insineratehymn are prepared to ascend the throne with Disembodied!
