01. Thru Our Scars 02. Abyssal 03. Conspiracy Of Silence 04.
Blinded By Fear 05. Mafia  RATING: 8.5/10  You look at the cover
art, check out the band name, read the album title, and get the
peculiar feeling of something being a tad askew. But the
seemingly strange contrast between the understood style of
Italy's FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE and the album cover and title
logically connect after one reads the lyrics and/or concept
synopsis. It just so happens that the "tad askew" part applies
to the music as well, in the case of the "Mafia" EP in the most
laudatory sense, as the follow-up to last year's debut "Oracles"
— itself a winning technically-oriented death metal album with a
symphonic twist — outdoes its predecessor in terms of creativity
and at least equals it from the standpoint of DM heaviness.  It
is a virtual guarantee that "wow" will not only be among the
first words out of your mouth during the opening moments of
"Thru Our Scars", but will be uttered with increased frequency
all the way to the end. "Mafia