From the moment one hits play this album will tear through your speakers as your jaw drops to the floor from the sheer amount of technical brilliance that zaps your head into bits. After a short intro entitled “Engage” the band quickly jumps into “Valley of Kings.” Imagine being flayed alive by a Gundam, that’s what this song feels like. Brutal death metal chugs and death defying sweeps make way for some serious guttural vocals that constantly batter one into a bloody pulp. Eventually around the two minute mark a short solo seeps in that is mind numbingly beautiful and flat out righteous.

After that it’s back into the blasting, which carries over into the next song “Serpents Tongue”. After these two songs mercifully pound the listener into dust “Spinal Cord Collection” manages to plant itself into your ears with some sick sweeps and tech as fuck riffs. Imagine a cross between Prostitute Disfigurement and Spawn of Possession. Brutal and mechanical this song is awesome. A sweet breakdown with some added sweeps closes out the song. The rest of the album is magnificent. From the heart wrenching end of “We Are Legion” to the cold and precise attack in “Pawning the Sanctuary” Diskreet managed to put together an amazing and well thought out album.

Their really isn’t a downfall on this album. Three years in the making and it’s a phenomenal work of art. If one has a hankering for some brutal technical death metal, then by all means give these guys a listen.

Licensed from the UK’s Siege of Amida Records and having 2 bonus tracks, Infernal Rise is exactly what you would expect from a modern deathcore outfit; a mix of blasting death metal, some chaotic grind, technical convulsions, breakdowns, dual growled/screamed vocals, etc. It’s all been done to death, but Diskreet have the same ‘it’ factor as bands like All Shall Perish, Despised Icon, As Blood Runs Black, The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Beneath The Massacre and such-that’s to say they do it rather well.

Sin City samples aside, the music is pummeling, tight and visceral. Drummer Andy Taylor is the backbone of the band and his tight delivery gives the overall sound something far better than many of the sloppy myspace deathcore bands out there. It’s obvious this lot practice their art and are simply more than a hobby. Standout tracks “Entrails” and “Faust” rumble and lurch with menace free from trite themes and lyrics, and with an ample mix of fervent tenacity and huge grooves.

The two ‘bonus’ tracks blend in with the EP’s previous 5 tracks and don’t come across as simply demos or shoddy re-workings of old songs tacked on the end. The end result is 7 songs of stern, above average technical deathcore that’s more in depth and destructive than half the lame burp and breakdown, kiddie core out there nowadays.