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Saprogenic: Expanding Toward Collapsed Lungs

SAPROGENIC
EXPANDING TOWARD COLLAPSED LUNGS
   If you like your music grotesquely guttural, heavy enough to make your ears implode and fast enough to loosen your head clean of your shoulders, then this is the album for you! What makes Expanding Toward Collapsed Lungs so special you ask? Well just imagine taking the rawest and most pulverizing elements of bands such as; Immolation, The Black Dahlia Murder, Six Feet Under and Vomitory, then melting them down and pouring the molten metallic components into a CD mold. Now imagine what that CD would sound like. Exactly like Expanding Toward Collapsed Lungs, is the correct answer. 
   There are moments during some tracks where you can't help but feel some sort of deja vu, but at the end of the day, if a riff works then its probably going to be used again. Its far more likely though that if you do feel anything other than pure euphoria while listening to this album, then it will be pure amazement. Amazement at just how crushing tracks like "Eat My Heart" and "Below Death" really are.
    Its fair to say that at no point does Expanding Toward Collapsed Lungs get boring. The wave-after-wave brutality certainly does its job keeping the listener gripped on all that is good and heavy. The superbly masterful riffing demonstrated on "Ritual Blaze" and the turbulent chugging of title track, "Expanding Toward Collapsed Lungs", makes it clear just how much business this talented bunch of Metallers actually mean. 
   Songs this good may be an enjoyable listen now, but a few years from now fans will be looking back on these tracks as the launching pad that allowed Saprogenic to ascend to Metal stardom. 


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