Although sweet, sweet guitar harmonies and crunchy syncopated riffs are always welcome in ShredViking land, this reviewer is also a big fan of dense, 7-layer cornucopias of noisy, grind-inflected riffs and bludgeoning, battering ram drum displays from Hell (Ov Hell?). My love of the more extreme styles draws a parallel line with my appreciation of the traditional, so I was more than up for the opportunity to switch gears from my listening habits of late for New York’s Patterns of Decay. The band appears more than eager to offer up a heaping helping of those heavy tenets en masse on … Continue reading Review: Patterns of Decay – S/T