‘‘Destroy’ will definitely wreck every listener’s mind!’ states the bio. Well. Not by a long shot. Let me rephrase this: ‘Destroy will maybe wreck a mind from a listener that has never heard a note of Soulfly’. And there we have the problem with Ektomorf: it is too much a copy of Max Cavalera’s project. This is their fifth studio record, so you would think by then a band should have developed a decent sound. But that appears to be not always the case, as this album illustrates. There are so many moments reminding me of Soulfly that it’s starting to irritate me. It’s not that they draw comparisons. No. They got litres of paint to point it out. Despite all this criticism, this actually isn’t a really bad album. The songs have a good structure. The voice is raw and direct (though it could use some variety), the guitars are down tuned and aggressive and the drums are produced in the foreground in the mix (done by Tue Madsen).

An aggressive record? Yes. But then again, where Soulfly has hooks, and The Haunted has an aggression you should kneel for, Ektomorf falls in between. No hooks, and the aggression…well... sometimes I get the feeling they are being aggressive for the sake of being aggressive. Ektomorf fans will love this album, and maybe some die-hard Soulfly lovers will buy it; but I think they won’t gain a lot of new friends with this effort. But maybe this album can be appreciated by hard- and metalcore fans , `cause of the sporadic breakdowns in the songs (only sometimes they use it as a sort of refrain, and that is something you had better not do with a breakdown). So. This album gets a place in my CD-archive, but won’t see sunlight for a long time. Maybe once, when if I move to Chile.