Liturgy's most honest, sincere album yet is also quite possibly their best.
You can tell listening to Four Dimensional Flesh that Afterbirth wanted to make a set of songs where neither the neanderthal brutality or the PhD-level avant-riffing felt like the main course they are synchronous halves of a broader whole. These songs are tightly composed prog death, packing tons of twists and turns and plenty of shocking, delightfully strange dissonant chord choices and swirling proggy melodies - these in turn make those deep, intense slam passages feel deeply earned. Afterbirth, as a band, are smarter than that.
For me, a song predominantly focused around building up its breakdown and predominantly focusing on making that breakdown simply atom-bomb heavy doesn't quite work for me it can feel, after a while, like the rest of the song is dead air, a waste of time, something to space out the slams and mosh riffs rather than something designed to be an equal-footed element of the song.
Langdon Hickman wrote: Normally, my issue with slam is largely one built around songwriting.
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