Just look at the artwork, it’s grotesque, the rolls of skin all in their wrong place, but also has a pale, grey beauty, something you’d expect from a band from Iceland perhaps. Well, if they were post-rockers from the mountains, it doesn’t really suit Minus at all, they’re all about brute force, the sound of Iceland’s wild rock party scene.

Things on ‘The Great Northern Whalekill’ (A statement against Iceland’s whaling industry) aren’t as brutal as the noise and hardcore of earlier records, instead they’re engendered with the kind of groove Josh Homme, The Bronx and even Biffy on occasions have thrilled with. ‘Black And Bruised’ lands some metalcore punches on QOTSA’s self-titled debut, while the swagger of the rolling and dangerous ‘Cat’s Eyes’ doesn’t quite hide the abrasive noise underneath.

There are definite nods to classic rock, metal and hardcore throughout, as on the polyrhythmic ‘Throwaway Angel’ and stuttering ‘Not Afraid’, which sound like Led Zep gone math-rock. And Krummi can match the vocal ups & downs of Robert Plant. Only the first acoustic 45 seconds of ‘Rip It Up’ and the bubblegum uplift of ‘Futurist’ offer any respite, the rest of the time on the blasts of ‘Shoot The Moon’, ‘Rhythm Cure’s’ muscle-bound rush ‘n’ crush, and ‘Weekend Lovers’, you get the feeling they might actually shoot down the big Luna