Swedish grindcore exponents Sickrecy hit the bullseye time and again with new album Salvation Through Tyranny, shining a light on everything that’s wrong on our benighted planet, and doing so with a fearsome musical accompaniment of paint-stripping, government-unseating intensity…

The main instrument – certainly the most important – used here is the cement mixer into which the band throw every idea they can muster; Death metal and crust punk form the basis, with Progress But Why? in particular getting the mixture just right with it’s combination of ripping riff warfare from Marcus Dahl, blastbeat battery from Martin Eriksson and the inimitable vocal assault of General Surgery/Birdflesh alumnus Adde Mitroulis.

It’s nosebleed-provoking stuff, and when the band lock into a filth-packed chug on Viewing The Absurd it’s absolutely impossible to resist. Mitroulis’ deranged delivery keeps things at fever pitch, but it’s ultimately the physical battery of Dahl and Eriksson that really hits hardest, and in most unforgivingly enjoyable fashion.

The insanity doesn’t let up for a single second – this is grindcore, after all – but there’s something in the way the band hit all their marks musically bang on that elevates this above the level of Garden variety noisemongery. This is prime quality, utterly superior stuff, right down to the choice of news broadcast samples that bolster the band’s already hard-to-deny message.

The levels of anger maintained by Mitroulis throughout are frankly superhuman, and, although I often mention it in my reviews of grind albums, you absolutely will need a rest and the application of cooling flannels after every exposure to this album; the only problem with this is you may run out of flannels, such is the utterly compelling nature of this keep-on-repeat recording.

Collectors may be keen to know that the CD version of the album contains a couple of cover versions and the band’s debut EP in it’s entirety – but whatever version you get, you’re going to get full bang for your buck, I can assure you…

Salvation Through Tyranny is out now.