Real death metal has been essential to the heavy music underground for 25 years now, periodically waxing and waning in the dark places that lurk inside all metalheads of certain countenance. But death metal's appeal, unlike its subject matter, will never die and it need not overly concern itself with trifles like "progress" and "relevance". Its seductive powers are far more ageless, primal and visceral. One need only listen to timeless masterpieces by Grave, Autopsy, Grotesque, Repugnant and countless others for proof positive. Vastum's 'Carnal Law' is deeply cut from the same diseased, rotted shroud.