Extremity has been Anaal Nathrakh's stock in trade for more than two decades, and with 11th album, Endarkenment, they maintain their legacy of aural devastation.

However, for all the furor they stir up, the duo have never been a two-dimensional entity, with a great deal of depth involved in everything that they do, and on many levels the new record is distinguished from its predecessors.

"I think in terms of feel, it's brighter, more open and direct than maybe we've been in the past," states vocalist Dave Hunt.

"Obviously I don't mean it's happy-go-lucky sounding, or suggestive of a sunny disposition.

I mean something more like it burns with light rather than glowers with darkness.

It's coruscating." The evolution since 2018's towering A New Kind Of Horror has been personal and profound, and is very much in line with that experienced by many of their listeners.