Half of The Insolent, Antigama’s seventh slab of flesh-rending insanity, makes other death grinders sound weak. Brief obliterations “Used To” and “Reward or Punishment” take prisoners only to torture them later. That’s when ambient synths presage the other half, the forward-thinking Warsaw quartet abandoning its wood chipper for a spin on the mosh floor. The hardcore slash of “Eraser” is no huge stretch, but the death & roll of “Sentenced to the Void” swings. The post-punk/doom mash-up of “The Land of Monotony” and the full-on prog of “Out Beyond” – complete with prominent synth riffs – reiterate the Poles’ boundary atomizing extreme metal.

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This article appears in August 14 • 2015.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.