Intense, unrelenting and laden with the kind of uncontrollable runaway riffwork that continually batters you into a near-unconscious state through a web of scorching death metal malevolence, Anata are a truly frightening prospect. Seemingly on a mission to destroy all limitations ever imposed on the genre, they create an immense aural blitzkrieg with more depth and complexity than you can shake a bullet-studded wrist-band at.

Spearheading this never-ending maze of guitar lines is guitarist Andreas Allenmark, who sweeps away any less competent guitarists in the scene with the most virtuoso of acrobatic fret-wizardry. Vocalist/guitarist Fredrik Schälin also implements a refreshingly sussed technicality that is nothing short of mesmerising above a virulent bed of death metal-isms. It’s an approach that far from swamps you with sloppy riffs, instead allowing a playfully adventurous side to the band to creep in through the likes of ‘Entropy Within’ and ‘The Drowning’ in particular, the band entering the unchartered realms of melodic improvisation that few such acts ever feel comfortable in.

It all results in a record that’s making me feel breathless even trying to understand it. ‘Under A Stone With No Inscription’ is a sprawling labyrinth of free-flowing, effortlessly executed brutality that sets the pace for any self-respecting complex metal band to follow.