Now, this is one of the most unique death metal albums that I've heard in a while. An older release from 2006 that came out on my new favorite weirdo-death-metal label Suprachaotic, this full length from Decaying Form appears at first to be closer to regular death/grind than the extreme, experimental glitch/breakcore/death metal mutations of Whourkr and Mulk. It's definitely more traditional modern death metal, at least in sound, and as the opening track "Putridity In Disarray: With Ruin Comes Rotting" kicks in, yer treated to an assault of ridiculously gutteral vocals, technical riffing, super-downtuned guitars, complex drumming and violent blastbeats, crushing, brutal death metal that on the surface sounds like it would be right at home on Unique Leader or United Guttural. Fans of bands like Devourment, Fleshgrind, Lividity, Deeds Of Flesh, and Spawn of Possession would probably completely bug out over Decaying Form. However, it becomes apparent pretty quick that these guys aren't your typical death metal band when you start to pay attention to the way that Decaying Form's songs are mapped out. This is insanely complicated, not so much in terms of the riffs (though the riffs are pretty fucking complex), but how the band seems to pack a hundred different changes and riffs into each three minute song, moving from one unpredictable passage to another abruptly, and it seems like the band never repeats a section, instead mutating an entirely new tentacle of intricate staccato deathslime out of another stop-on-a-dime change. The drummer navigates through this labyrinth of crushing complexity with a variety of blastbeats and angular time-signature changes that'll make your head spin, and the precision that he wields with each sudden stop/start break is really impressive. The complexity and jarring song arrangements suggest a band applying the laser-guided techniques of Torture Garden-era Naked City to bone-crushing Devourment style death, making for one of the most challenging death metal albums on this week's list!