After a seven-year void, Texas pioneers of brutal death metal, Devourment, have returned with a surprise new 12-minute EP that emphatically proves they haven't diminished an ounce of their purpose: absolute heaviness. The '10s saw the band releasing two albums with fairly different responses from the audience, yet I fully enjoyed both Conceived In Sewage (2013) and Obscene Majesty (2019), the latter being of course better. As with everyone else, I didn't see Pious Impiety coming, a three-track 7" of the band's relentless, trademark slabs of slam death, heavy in a way that suggests the band can take any kind of hiatus they want and still remain on point afterwards. The EP is direct and destructive, a blasphemous incantation of inverted divinity in the form of staggering grooves, deep cave growling and a suffocating sound production. Opening with the self-titled track and a quote which, I think, is from The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), "we are the ones who dwell within - and I am…
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