The band take the speed up a notch, combining the warped weight of 'Blessed Are The Sick' with even more streams of brutality, Trey's guitaring is alien in its extremity, opening cut 'Rapture' is a monstrous slab of death metal that only Morbid Angel could truly construct. 'Covenant' remains my third favourite Morbid Angel simply because 'Altars...' and 'Blessed...' were so mighty, but on its own 'Covenant' is a writhing, seething mass of fetid chords, twisted vocals and churning grind. The speed is intoxicating, on a few tracks, such as 'Angel Of Disease' there is certainly a punky influence but this is ultra heavy Floridian death metal which will certainly please anyone with a taste for human flesh and black witchery.
Morbid Angel have always effortlessly spewed out truly satanic metal without ever sounding corny or losing their edge. 'Pain Divine' is gale force speed, 'World Of Shit...' a slow, pounding trudge and 'Vengeance Is Mine' breathes life back into that old Slayer trademark of wayward riffs and slamming rhythm.
8/10
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