Although hardly producing the same sort of inventive, mind-bending noise that bands in the Relapse stable have been dropping over the last eighteen months, _Zero Comfort Margin_ doesn't take long to grab one's attention as the band launch into a plethora of hyperfast riffs that hit with all the subtlety of a rhino horn to the groin. Plying a more traditional brand of grindcore, the music is gruffly produced, technically exceptional and, at times, even quite catchy. It's the subtle nuances of tracks like "A Homage to Tombstone Granite", awash in cascades of discordant guitars, that elevate the record beyond several of its peers though. And even if the record is a tad on the short side -- fifteen songs crammed into a mere twenty minutes -- _Zero Comfort Margin_ provides enough of a jolt to serve as an adequate apology from Earache to the fans it seemingly left by the wayside for the last few years.