Album review: Dying Fetus – Make Them Beg For Death

There are few constants in life upon which you can truly rely, but one that stands firm is that Dying Fetus will take your head off with every release. Returning with the follow up to 2017’s aptly titled Wrong One To Fuck With, ninth full-length Make Them Beg For Death is suitably devastating, delivering more of their trademark blend of ruthless death metal and muscular ’core – both hard and grind – without ever retreading old ground.

Opener Enlighten Through Agony kicks things off in brutish style, attacking from every angle with scathing riffs and even has a touch of black metal atmosphere to it, and it is the perfect vessel for such bilious vocals. There are no weak links across the nine tracks that follow, and highlights include the likes of Feast Of Ashes, which is all vomit and fast finger-work, hammering you into submission, and the relatively brief Throw Them In The Van is merciless hacking and slashing, thrillingly so.

Best, though, are When The Trend Ends and Raised In Victory, Razed In Defeat, the former a full on machine gun chugging attack that is designed to grind the listener down while the latter plays off a frantic assault against punch-drunk hostility and hits the spot just right.

Taken altogether this is 41 minutes of glorious murder music that makes no apologies, and nor should it. More than 30 years into their career Dying Fetus are still showing up the opposition, and Make Them Beg For Death maintains their well-earned rep for being amongst extreme metal’s hardest hitters.

Rating: 4/5

For fans of: Misery Index, Cannibal Corpse, Hatebreed

Make Them Beg For Death is released on September 8 via Relapse