Tight rhythms and anguished growls emanate from 'Flatline' and 'Local Vengeance Killing', two of the ten cutthroat tracks found on The Hammering Process from Solidstate's Living Sacrifice. A quadruple vocal attack combined with Lance Garvin's maniacal drumming ability provide for some awesome rhythms, as in the first half of 'Bloodwork'. As you go farther into the tune, Bruce Fitzhugh's melody may strike you a bit weird when mixed in with the rest of the outfit, but that's soon changed with a bombastic ending, featuring the aforementioned Lance Garvin.

The sheer anger and rage aren't hard to find on this album. 'Not My Own' and 'Altered Life' ooze with it. With all the hateful vibes littered throughout, it's good to see a bit of harmony and melody creep in, ala the sweet vocals in 'Hard Of The Dead' (would've never guessed, would you?) and the old-school Metallica middle to 'Burn The End', which gets Midget's highest praise because damnit, it's good to see someone else pull it off.

Although the lyrical melodies sometimes don't mesh as well as they could, the rhythms and tag-team guitar work of Rocky and Bruce Fitzhugh overlap that one mishap, making for some definitely sweet metal.

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