You always had a sense that Job For A Cowboy's Jony Davis had something about him that set him apart from the moribund masses of guttural roar. Now the only remaining member of the dark technical metallers, there was a hint of what that talent could produce on last year's Gloom EP but that was an amuse bouche compared to this main course- the band's third album proper- that is rich, rewarding and deeply satisfying. Far more accomplished than the band's previous releases, Demonocracy represents several significant steps forward but you should not mistake " accomplished" for any suggestion that they have lost any of their brutality or technical precision. Not a bit of it; what Demonocracy does show however is a band that use brutality as part of their overall aural assault rather than it being its centrepiece; this is indeed progress.