This Danish death/prog quintet went through a line-up change prior to album four, making them into something of a supergroup. Møl vocalist Kim Song Sternkopf, Soilwork drummer Bastian Thusgaard and bassist Anders Frodo S. Mikkelsen joined guitarists Kasper Kirkegaard – also of Hatesphere – and Flemming C Lund, to unleash death metal brutality with melodic complexities. The amalgam is more organic than your usual harsh verse/clean chorus clash; Kim’s brutal vocal stoicism is the lynchpin while dynamics compete in the surrounding maelstrom. Compositionally ambitious and uplifting without being saccharine, Distortions… is a refreshing take on mixing melody and savagery that should satiate tech-heads and lovers of more direct pummelling alike. ■■■■■■■■■■