From Bandcamp, "SEA SLEEPER is not trying to be everything. Just consistent, rhythmic, heavy, and primordial. Portland's quartet strive to prove heavy is more than just volume. Absorbing the sounds of GORGUTS, CAR BOMB, MASTODON, and BLUT AUS NORD, and then misremembering it to spawn a spire of alloys Their goal is simple: write. record. press. release. repeat. Death." The album has eight songs, and "Abysmal Trench" is first. One of the first things you notice about the song is a fast and deep chaos that almost seems uncontrollable, combined with dissonance. It acts a bit like Deathcore, but is a mutated gene from that even. It settles at one point with clean vocals, but the dissonance hangs on tight. The title track is at least a little more linear at first, and you can hear the riff and thunderous bass notes that accompany them…at least at first. It begins to descend however into the bowels of the earth, and that's where it stays.

"Coma" brings the irrational fears of being fully alert but not awake to life, and you know what I am talking about. The vocals represent the screams you would let out if you could, and the music is heavily angled and dirtily dissonant. Towards the end you can really hear the anger welling up. "Husk" features bass notes that are as deep as the Mariana trench. The chaos that follows is akin to a serial murderer having his victims in an inescapable room and ready and willing to be slaughtered. There are again some more linear sounds here at times, but they are few and far between. "Lunar Degenerates" has ominous elements, along with some obligatory pig squeals. The pacing is slow, so that the darkness can sink in deep and spread quickly. It doesn't have the same chaos as previous songs, but the dissonance is still there.

"Machines of the Bombing Runs" seems to recount bombing raids during a war. The sound is dark, and the riffs are sinister. There is a passage of clean vocals, but they are filthy, and the song heightens your sense of surroundings. "They'll Miss You" is the final cut, and it's skewed and off kilter. Chaos rises like the dark lord from the Underworld, and he brings fire and brimstone with him. SEA SLEEPER may have created a new genre with "Burden of Antlers." Falling somewhere within the vast canyons of Death Metal, there is enough expansion of the sound that ends up as an amalgamation. It's heavy, rhythmic and raw, as advertised, and the band are accomplished musicians. My biggest concern might be finding an audience for their uncommon sound, but I enjoyed it very much.