"Control Through Fear" delivers the group's firebrand message with a couple of deftly modern metal touches thrown in for good measure -- the sort that would make any Lamb of God fan blush bright red. Sensationally threatening too is "Eye of Babylon", a barnstormer that's decked out in enough snarling groove to cause a riot on damn near any dancefloor. But it's the closing salvo of "What Horrifies" and the fist-pumping title track that seals the deal for _To the Death_ being perhaps Earth Crisis' finest hour. Simultaneously ferocious and unique, both demand to have their every word shouted along to by heavy music fans of all shapes and sizes -- whether you subscribe to the band's straight-edge idealism or not.