Yes, Today may well be the day for this youthful veteran trio, having first sold their souls to the extreme a few years ago with '99s "Eyes of God." Anyone, like myself, who may have forgotten them won't soon forget this: the opening sequence to a split EP, previewing the forthcoming "Sadness Will Prevail" later this year. Their three entries, an aural crematory bent on bloodlust, doom and death, songs -- which puts it lightly -- though there are some surprising tuneful aspects hidden within the crusty surface-driven by sheer amplified noise, similar to and expected from what leader Steve Austin, voice, guitars, bringer of breakdowns has worked with others the likes of Lamb of God, Unsane and Anal Cunt... and so that says enough about that.

Metatron's a newcomer to the scene and sings the praises of the gospel by comparison... well actually not, in fact their two entries, which include the lyrics, deal similarly with sadness, despair, in a sinfully dark image painted red and black. The Kentucky-based duo, perform admirably their own fixation with noise- riddled instrumentation that could only make enough sense to those already teetering on insanity driven only by a hatred for all things pleasant and warm, with nary a trace of soulful solitude to be granted. Today is the Day is the more creative of the two but they do share a degree of similar tastes, sour though they may be, this could in fact be the dawning of a new age of misery wrought from the inside out.