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Coming from Massachusetts and Connecticut, it’d be a fair assumption to make that The Breathing Process are as heavy as an obese elephant and, once the intro for their debut album for Seige Of Amida Records bleeds into opening track In Waking Divinity, it’s nice to find that these American brutalists are up for giving your eardrums a right good pounding.

Inspired by the likes of At The Gates and Meshuggah, the bands’ material has a definite European feel to it. It’s got the sort of crunch to have you checking your teeth while possessing the sort of groove that will have any self-respecting headbanger windmilling along in moments. What sets The Breathing Process apart from a lot of the other bands doing this sort of thing is their layers of black-metal inspired operatics. With inspiration lifted from bands like Emperor and Dimmu Borgir, the added dimension gives material like The Harvesting that extra bit of oomph to set them apart from all those other bands who are following in the footsteps of New-Death Metal outfits like Job For A Cowboy. Legions Prayer and Somnium do nothing other than continue the death/black metal onslaught as the album refuses to relent in its fury even after eight tracks.