The tone is set early doors with the Piss-soaked opening track, titled "Keep No Cunt Alive", which explodes out of the speakers like a microwaved cat and keeps going through every nerve-shredding minute of this Coventry outfit's debut album. The fact that this is a UK band makes it all the more enjoyable that these guys are following in the footsteps of such scene luminaries as Raging Speedhorn, Medulla Nocte and Charger. Musically OFB have a lot in common with the aforementioned, but do mange to wipe their own shit-smeared cloth on the proceedings. OFB slip up and down the tempo scale from blastbeats to doom-flavoured grind-outs that sound like the devil's heartbeat and back again. This is dirty, uncompromising metal that sets no truck with popularity, but instead creates an aural nightmare that's unpalatable, and leaves you feeling dirty and violated. Lovley stuff.

[7] NICK GRIFFITHS