‘Too numb to be ashamed, Too weak for exchange, Too much to find the start, Beginning at nowhere with no one there to ask’ (Endxiety)

I still vividly remember first dropping the needle on Svffer’s 2014 debut album, Lies We Live, and being sent absolutely reeling by the intensity of its sonic violence.  It was a truly visceral braiding of emotional hardcore and powerviolence and one that ignited an equally devastating onslaught on their follow-up, Empathist, a year later.  Having toured that album extensively, including a savage performance at the now defunct The Unicorn in Camden, things went rather quiet from the Műnster band.  But Svffer are now back with a final EP, before they take their leave with a farewell run of shows in Germany this autumn.

Fiercely metallic riffage is laced with darkly dissonant melody, and while the rhythm section is rooted in blistering speed, it is also equally adept at segueing into swaggering breakdowns and brutal blast eruptions.  The vocals are, as always, rabidly harrowing as they challenge misogyny in a music scene that professes to enlightened and wider themes of self-doubt and anxiety in a society heavily conditioned to a particular view of what is ‘normal’ and what is not.  From the unhinged climatic fury of the opener In Harm(ony) to the discordantly melodic escalation of the closer Fear Of Missing, Eternity Moment serves as a fittingly venomous sign-off.