Unlike previous records, this time the band has allowed some two or even three word song titles, but the tracks themselves rarely reach beyond the 1:20 marker. Intensity is ferocious throughout: riffs accelerate from fast to ultra-fast in mere seconds and drums sound like a frontline machine-gun, but the almighty groove helps this album out of the all-speed and no hooks territory. Highlights are hard to pinpoint, but I'll go for the short and murderously good "Corponation" and "Deceit", plus the longest _Cycles_ tracks: "Alternews" and especially the stomping "Trust", which sports a melody (of sorts) and some crushingly slow riffs.

Indeed, Rotten Sound manage to pull off a very tight album that is conservatively grindcore but might prove a fairly entertaining listen for any lover of metal extremities.