After years of being associated with that one band from the 60's you might have heard of, Liverpool has done its level best in the past decade to be a hotbed for filthy, nasty riffs, rapid, crushing blast-beats and fuck-you vocals; and Corrupt Moral Altar are one of the leading names in that movement, merging the abrasive sensibilities of the heavy spectrum into a head-pounding cacophony of pure aural hurt. Gliding effortlessly between the jarring aggression of the heaviest of grind and sludge to those infectiously punky hooks, their two full lengths, 2014's Mechanical Tides and 2017's Eunoia, barb their way into your brain stem and don't leave your head no matter how hard you pull. Bringing to mind peak era Napalm Death (which should come as no surprise considering CMA guitarist John Cooke tours with them), though with a bit more cohesion running through the core, you'll be lucky if your neck stays in one piece when Corrupt Moral Altar are assaulting your eardrums. With a new EP - Patiently Waiting For Wonderful Things – released through APF at the end of 2020, it got that bit more brutal round these parts as Corrupt Moral Altar look to cave your skull in.