Opening with an ominous swell of violin strings that sets an apocalyptic mood, Art Of Burning Water quickly set into a ferocious set of artsy, occult tinged "holy terror" style metalcore that chucks out slabs of disgustingly heavy thrash metal breakdowns that wind through immense passages of dissonant instrumental math metal and huge sludgy dirges with washes of violin. This album is really pretty amazing, not just because of the sheer destructive power of the riffage presented on here that manages to be both weirdly complex and chaotic as well as bonecrushingly heavy, but also because the vocals are some of the most fucked up, insane sneered shrieks I've ever heard, sounding totally unhinged and EVIL and distinctly British, a perfect match for the sinister thrash/sludge/math/instrumental assault and the creepy, abstractly Satanic pen and ink artwork on the package and song titles like "Murder The Skies Of England". The disc has 10 songs in just under a half-hour, a tightly constructed blast of outsider thrash/metalcore that lays down loads of creep and closes out in an extended cacophony of twisted-metal feedback drone, haunting violin skree, and smoking amplifier carnage that would make both Boris and Skullflower proud. Another seriously recommended one from Superfi, the same label that brought you the similiarly-excellent Hunting Lodge album reviewed elsewhere in this weeks list as well as the UK release of Geisha's Mondo Dell'Orrore. Killer!