vinyl pressing on Power It Up housed in a nice gatefold sleeve. Taking grindcore to the next level, Maruta returns with their sophomore release. Forward into Regression contains 16 tracks of deep seeded misanthropy that are armed to the teeth with an overabundance of surgically precise riffs, relentless speed, and volatile dissonance. Equally emotional as it is abrasive, this is truly an essential listen for ANY extreme music aficionado. 16 discordant tracks that push the dense format of 2008?s In Narcosis to its logical extreme while simultaneously hewing to the classical loud-and-unrelenting approach to grind championed by Maruta?s spiritual forefathers. Hints of Napalm Death and Nasum abound, as any grindcore band worth its salt in 2011 should aspire to, but the sound of Forward Into Regression most closely parallels Maruta?s former labelmates Phobia: grind-by-way-of-hardcore, a convenient delivery method for fusing two historically angry genres and making ?em even more unpleasant. This mix is not intended to be inviting by design; Mitchell Luna?s alternating grunts and screams ? the voice of 1000 nightmares ? are practically a warning to stand back and avoid collateral damage.