Cyberne are the first Japanese band (at least as far as I know) to be added to the roster of French label Basement Apes, but they fit right in alongside the rest of the label's roster of heavy, angular metallic noise rock bands. Law is the debut full-length from these Osaka skronk metallers, who list the likes of Dazzling Killmen, King Crimson, Jesus Lizard, Zeni Geva, and CopShootCop as their rmain influences; the Dazzling Killmen reference is immediately noticeable in the crushing progged-out math metal that these guys grind out, jagged guitars and skronky riffing meeting hoarse screaming and herky-jerky stop start rhythms, the songs tense and angular and full of menace. So much of this album is unabashed Dazzling Killmen worship, which is a-ok with me, but it's beefed up with a more metallic viciousness, going from furious drumming to grinding blast beats or spastic lurching rhythms, the music shifting between passages of smoldering tension and explosive heaviness. There's lots of killer demented soloing and twisted, evil harmonized guitar, hurricane vocal effects, weird Voivodian riffs, fluid bass lines that seem to be heavily influenced by jazz, and the bass guitar is way out in front, virtually the lead instrument on much of the album, which gives this an interesting edge. As manic and out of control as Cyberne gets, they never do it at the expense of the almighty riff, and there are some amazing riffs on this album, especially when they go from a crushing atonal dirge into an epic melodic part, all progged out and dark and soaring. Some of the standout tracks on Law include the lethal groove of "Vabel" that teeters at the edge of chaos, the stalking Sabbathoid doom of the title track that morphs into a monstrous skronk dirge, the droning keyboards and jagged doom of "Hellfund", and the manic closer "Muethai", where angular guitars and crushing metallic weight collapses into total hysteria. Like some kind of crazed No Wave-infected math/thrash, Dazzling Killmen crossed with Zeni Geva, this is highly recommended to fans of extreme math metal.