afgrund The Age of Dumb (CD, £11.50)

3rd album from Swedish grinders AFGRUND! • Boasting a crushingly bass-filled production that suits the music down to the ground, AFGRUND certainly know how to grind your mind. • They blast, they scream, they batter and crush all those who're brave enough to dare to stand close to a speaker when they're playing. • "The Age of Dumb" contains everything you could ask for - short, to the point crust-coated songs that pound the listener into submission, leaving you just hungry enough to want to press play once again for another aural battering literally seconds after the album has played through. • Fans of the much-missed Nasum will undoubted (and understandably) cream themselves after hearing these guys, but they2re also a nobrainer for the old school Napalm Death/Extreme Noise Terror fanatics out there. • Thrilling, brutal and most importantly essential for that gaping hole in any grind freaks collection!