One of 2022s slew of top-notch releases in the style was The Void Eternal from Canada’s new act Art of Attrition, and here is the band’s follow-up EP, ​.​.​.​And it Will All End Forever .  Yeah I know it’s shades of Lorna Shore’s.... And I Return to Nothingness), but considering the band’s sound, it fits.

Yeah, they are a deathcore band with heavy use of black metal orchestration and choirs, so bands like Lorna Shore (Immortal era) and A Wake in Providence are certainly viable comparisons, and by and large these Canucks do it really well, certainly with these 4 songs they belong in that second tier of bands with Drown in Sulfur, When Plagues Collide, Bonecarver, Worm Shepherd, Downfall of Mankind, The Archaic Epdemic and such.

That said, even with all the genre tropes firmly in place,  the EP takes a couple of songs to warm up, with “Drown in Fog” and “Vitriol” being more clinical tech death and the stuttering Archspire vocals in the third track ‘Emaciate”, make me a little hesitant to fully commit. But the chorus and ending moments of “Emaciate” reel me in. Still, the dry production and unnatural sound synths add to my hesitation to add these guys to that second tier.

But then the EP’s ending title track. Holy fuck do they knock it out of the park with 6 minutes of killer melodies, a killer chorus and key/choirs, and a massive breakdown that make it an absolutely killer track, maybe one of the year’s best in the genre, I just hope they continue the momentum of the song into the next album, and then they will be firmly in that second tier of the crowded genre.