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Unworthy

PROSTHETIC Death-grind lunatics come into their own on album number two Having spent more than a decade making glacially paced post-metal with North, drummer Zack Hansen and guitarist

Matt Mutterperl recruited Gatecreeper bassist Sean Mears on vocals and set to work on a meaner, faster and uglier outfit. While Languish’s 2015 debut,

Extinction, displayed a band still finding their feet, all their appendages are accounted for on Unworthy: a snarling, rancid slab of death-grind that takes no prisoners. With not a single song breaching the thee-minute barrier, this is an unpretentious take on the genre. D-beatladen rampages like Nurv and off-kilter blast-athons like Chopping Block go straight for the jugular, with only the occasional mid-paced chug of

Famine and the title track as reprieve, while the deathly stench and anxious, uncomfortable song structures of tracks like Unholy Land prove these guys aren’t just your average grind band.