By Vinnie Apicella

"X Wraith" pounds its way through your speakers first and hammers away at your skull with an unrelenting hunger for doing serious damage and before long you, the inevitably weary listener, realizes they're going to be subjected to nothing less than complete obliteration… "Chemical Garden" will break down your senses with an ungodly passion for ferocity with the brazen buzz of a doom-driven guitar grind that acts as an effective numbing agent, scarring the senses, leaving bones for ashes in their place. The Swedish act takes their cue from fellow countrymen and once promising legends Entombed, content to take up the slack where the latter left off and what a convincing job they do of it! There's nothing pretty to pull from this garden and if "Chemical Garden" were to possess any similarities to that of the agricultural variety, there'd be nothing left but dead weeds left in the scorched remains of a barren wasteland!

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