I was pretty impressed by The Eating Cave‘s album from last year, the excellently-monickered Ingurgitate. To my battered old ears they seemed to have hit upon some sort of golden ratio of unhinged vocal gymnastics, low-foreheaded bludgeon and surgeon-worthy lead work; But do you know what? The clever bastards have surpassed even those superhuman efforts to come up with something even better in 2023: The Miscalculation.

Put simply, if you enjoyed what this band were up to last time around, you’re going to be absolutely bloody ecstatic when you get to hear the seven screaming dizbusters on offer here… As ever, I’ll say that  brutal/technical death metal doesn’t lend itself to the picking out of highlights but… if you are not reduced to a hysterical, yelping mess by tracks like Implications then I fear death metal might not be the game for you…

And then there’s the tech-death-jazz stylings of Awakening… I kid you not – there’s nothing these blokes can’t brutalise, nothing at all…

At the eye of the maelstrom sits vocalist Thiago Campanhol, who once again gives a masterclass in schizoid, throat-based mayhem. His overall performance is impressive enough, but on the suitably Morbid Warfare he veers off the scale into areas most vocalist doing this kinda stuff couldn’t even dream of, let alone attain.

Campanhol is aided and abetted by some pyrotechnic playing from axemen Evan Hope and Tyler Boylan (alongside some guest solos from Demon King‘s Matt Brown); But at the end of the day it’s just the sheer massiveness of The Eating Cave’s sound that is the real, all-consuming star here. Can they get any better? If they can, then album number three is going to be absolutely unbelievable, let me tell you…

The Miscalculation will be released on April 21st