Death metal continued its rise with Autopsy’s Severed Survival, an album which encapsulates the essence of this bestial underground uprising: a grown-up-baiting preoccupation with images and words of extreme gore, dismemberment and insanity, backed by ultra-heavy amplified and distorted electric guitar riffs and demented solos, delivered in a vocal style of ludicrous corpse-like growls. Severed Survival confirms American death metal as grotesque outsider music smashing most rock bands into mewling splinters by comparison.