‘On the stage of the obscene, inhumanity is sold with ease, culture stripped and disembowelled, turned to vacant disease, capital eats all, while we sit at this lifeless feast’ (Captive […In The Mutilated Vista])

Over the past decade, Toronto’s S.H.I.T. have released a slew of EPs and now return with their second full-length, For A Better World.  As ever, their sound revolves around wave upon wave of relentless riffage that is as remorseless as it is infectiously dissonant.  A satisfyingly elastic rhythm section is the perfect complement as are the utterly venomous vocals, less saturated in effects than on earlier releases, and dripping with an undisguised contempt for our failure to tackle our corroding democracy, degrading environment, and militarised violence.

Amid such an onslaught, it is the textural accents that provide invaluable mooring points – from the discordant electronic flares throughout Corporate Funded Killing Technology to the soaring melodic guitar lead on Terminal Democracy, and from the relentless, roiling drums of Imminent Destruction to the wailing, anguished climax of Captive (…In The Mutilated Vista).  An album of unwavering intensity, unremitting hostility.