Tyrants Blood – Into the Kingdom of Graves (Tridroid Records, 2013)

I’m just going to come right out and say it; Into the Kingdom of Graves is a fucking force of nature. Having already been familiar with Tyrants Blood’s previous EP and album releases (2008’s Prophecy and 2010’s Crushing Onward Into Oblivion, respectively), I knew something of what to expect from these Canadians, but this is a band that gets more devastating with every release, and what we have here is nothing short of the musical equivalent of an F-5 level tornado of razor blades and sledgehammers coming straight for you, the unsuspecting listener.  In other words, it’s an album that wants to slash you to ribbons and smash you to bits simultaneously.