Straddling the crushing brutality of Morbid Angel and the emotive metal of bands like Shadows Fall, songs like "Apocalypse Continues" and "Shape of Pain" have all the kick of a thoroughbred horse on a double dose of steroids. Yet for all their impact, Frontside let themselves down badly when stepping out of their creative comfort zone, as they do when they attempt to spice things up with an excruciating dabble in clean vocals on "We Are Destined to Burn". Still, they can take comfort in the fact that comparing them to the likes of Bleeding Through and Killswitch Engage (as their label do on the disc's accompanying bio) fails to do them justice entirely.