Review of Stigmata High Five

This tech/grind blast coming out of O town is up there with fellow Ontarions the End and Winnipeg’s Malfaction, and Stigmata High Five will definitely help put Canada on the extreme-music map. This is 37 minutes of pure ballast with all of the cut and paste arrangements of Calculating Infinity-era Dillinger Escape Plan and some of the most ferocious crusty-core female vocals you have ever heard. FTF know not to blow their whole wad and pull punches with proggy keyboards on “La Derniere Image” or the quick power metal interlude on “The Wrecking,” but FTF really score points when they just hunker down and pulverize.

9/10