Review by JD on April 10, 2016.

Once again, Belgium has offered up a splendid piece of metal and it is one powerful slab of metal to be hold. For such a small country they truly are then next nexus for extreme metal in all of its glorious forms.

Insanity Reigns Supreme comes at you with a combination of doom, death and black metal, packaged just right and not in Lo-Fi manner of some acts out there. Sounding like some twisted demon spawn of Cradle of Filth, Novembers Doom, Bathory and Italy’s Oath they paint a dark painting of their world that is filled with pain, hatred, despair and blood throughout their album – a macabre work of art.

I urge you to listen to the dark expressiveness of 'Opposer' or the brutal haunting of 'Cursed Be The Faithful' to get the full strength of this band in all of its glory. Each track is a sonic vision of the cursed world most of human kind would never venture into. With the addition of soothing female vocals that add to the ambiance of starkness it makes Insanity Reigns Supreme’s album literally jump out of the player right at your very soul.

I have not enjoyed such an extreme multi genre album in a while nor have I been this impressed right out of the blocks either. Unorthodox was one of those albums that truly was made and delivered in perfect balance of attack, depressing darkness, blood born death and the inevitable fear it will create before the end comes.

Insanity Reigns Supreme has lived up to its moniker and way past it as well.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Review by Carl on April 24, 2020.

Whoa, this packs quite the punch, that's for sure! I know Wargrinder from their previous releases but this one wipes the floor with all that came before. If you happen to miss Angelcorpse as much as I do then this will certainly help to fill that void. The spirit of that band is prevalent throughout the whole of this album and it immediately establishes a nice familiar feeling.

The music on show here is executed with relentless energy and passion. The bulk of the songs speed ahead at high velocity and the listener doesn't have that much time to relax in between, and luckily so. This type of venomous metal is supposed to be delivered with aggression oozing out of the speakers. It isn't until the ending of 'Time Consumes Existence' and the instrumental album closer 'Of Bliss and the Endless Void' that sole member Warhead takes the foot of the accelerator and it allows for some breathing space to enter the maelstrom of malicious black/death metal while retaining a vitriolic heaviness to the music. The overall riffing is on par with that of Gene Palubicki's and it's probably the primary reason the music has the same sound and feel as that of Angelcorpse's classic "The Inexorable". It's a sound that I have certainly missed, that's for sure. What it could have used though was some searing leads to break up the monotony that, after a while, inevitably comes with the constantly raging assault on offer here. That's a small point of criticism that doesn't take anything away from this awesome album though.

This album is a more than enjoyable piece of malicious metal music. It's got the songs and the remorseless aggression to please all fans of brutal and precise black/death metal in general and Angelcorpse in particular, and Mr. Warhead certainly has the musical chops to back it up. This is a pretty impressive offering and until the day that Pete Helmkamp and Gene Palubicki perhaps decide to give it another go, Wargrinder should be easily able to fill the void that Angelcorpse left behind.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10