What’s that, you say? It’s been a while since you were properly earfucked? Well, you’re in luck, because Cardiac Arrest is prepared to rape everything in sight, and they’re especially fond of ears. In fact, they’re nearly creaming themselves with a rabid love for filthy underground death metal, and they’re just dying to fill you up with it. The sickening death-doom-grind-punkish vibe emanating from Haven for the Insane is pungent and meaty enough to choke on.

What you’re served with Haven for the Insane is a vomit-caked plate heaped with just about every putrid helping you’d come to expect from a group on the Ibex Moon Records roster, all wrapped up with a gritty stab-you-in-the-basement sound that’s sure to appeal to degenerates and perverts the (metal) world over. Beer-soaked vocals splatter over an intensely sick/thick background comprising of maniacal guitar work, churning low end and non-fucking-stop drum blasts. Tracks like…well, basically all of them showcase this, but highlights would be “Against Their Will,” with its relentless drum attacks, tempo shifts and evil riffing; “Embrace the Aftermath” for its eerie, crawling groove; and “Rage On…Fuck Off” for a twitching punk vibe and the best intro ever: “one, two…one, two, fuck you!” The only break from the madness is between songs, so wear your diapers, kiddies.

Having never heard Cardiac Arrest prior to Haven for the Insane, I can’t say where the album stacks up in comparison to earlier material, but with the ferocity and insanity spewed out of these 12 tracks, my bet is that the C.A. maniacs have been grinding out this unholy, chaotic Razorback-esque mess (I mean that in the best way possible) since their inception. And I say keep on deathrotting in the free world, gentlemen.

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