It has been a while since we covered everyone’s favorite Christian technical death metal band, Krig. Probably not everyone’s, but they are a band that I’ve followed off and on over the years as they cover a very specific part of my musical palette that I just can’t find elsewhere: bold and unapologetic, brutal and politically incorrect with musical technicality. They will call a spade a spade while pummeling you with brutal riffs. What’s not to love? They released their latest album “Bite My Byte,” and I thought that I’d bring it to the review light.

Krig formed in 2007 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and hit the ground running, releasing their debut “Feed Me” in the same year. Although starting with promising output, the history of the band is a little discontinuous with a brief sputter in 2009 and longer hiatus from 2015 to 2019. At some point the band relocated to Canada, where the band core consists of husband/wife duo Isaque and Jully Soares on guitars and bass. “Bite My Byte” introduces a new vocalist in Zach Glaeser (GLAE), which might make longtime fans nervous not hearing founding vocalist Daniell Corpse. How does the new stuff stack up?

Like many of the previous albums, there is an underlying social commentary. Today’s menu is Artificial Intelligence and the infusion of technology into every part of our lives with a garnishing of horror. The cover may seem like grotesque juxtaposition to that horror bit until you see it as allegory for us (the dog) staring expectantly for sustenance from our technological overlords (the scary red fridge). As I said, they call a spade a spade and this album’s lyrics will divide. Regardless, as the world threatens our human dignity, Krig provides optimistic, scriptural grounding to bolster you in those daily skirmishes.

Although there are some lighter spots, like the melancholic, horror movie-infused “Bite My Byte” and intro track “Add Parameters,” the album brutally barrels through concrete barricades with speedy tempos and dissonant angular melodies. It is rather cerebral, engaging the mind, while exciting the senses, however the technical bend makes it a little difficult to appreciate the various shades of gray in brutality, where I am often sated before the final course.

I for one enjoyed Daniell’s deep vocals in Krig’s other albums, particularly in “Target Human” which was one of my first forays into brutal death metal. Although Zach has a different tact, all of what I enjoyed before with Krig’s vocals is still there and maybe a little bit more. He brings in the deep borborygmus but will swing to blackened shrieks on short notice. He’s all over the place in a deathcore style, and it works well. For example, “Automated Retarded,” one of my favorite tracks on the album, has a chorus that repeats lyrics. Each iteration is given a different treatment that communicates that repetitiveness, but makes it fun. That said, the enunciation is lacking, even for death metal, where the written lyrics are the only way to understand what the heck is going on.

The rest of the band make this a high energy, thrashing outing. Isaque’s guitar work is technical and nuanced, where he is pulling in rhythms so offbeat it reminds me of Brazilian samba. Jully’s bass complements well the rhythm guitar and gives a solid lower end, and Vinicius, in a guest musician capacity, throws in exciting fills. The additional electronic bleeps and bloops are a nice touch, alluding to the album concept, but by far my favorite condiment is the technical thrash riffs that make my head spin.

I’ll go out on a limb and say this is Krig’s best record yet. It is smart, it is brutal, it is fast, it is technical, and it is a lot of fun to blast, annoying the neighbors scrolling through their Facebook feeds. Ever thought of the word feed? Kind of like the stuff the refrigerator would give that dog in the cover, right? Anyway, I think that this is a super fun album if you have an appetite for technical death metal and it will likely be gracing many a top 10 list come the end of the year.

Rating: 9.0/10

Written by Sean Bailey

Tracklist:
1 – Bite My Byte
2 – #hashtagdominatesyou
3 – The 666 Algorithm
4 – Add Parameters
5 – Automated Retarded
6 – 404 Not Found
7 – Big Tech CEO Bought Your Soul
8 – Cloud Brain
9 – Superficial Intelligence
10 – Censorship Algorithm
11 – Oriented Object
12 – Foolish Evildoers XII

Krig is:
Isaque Soares – guitars
Jully Soares – bass
Zach Glaeser – vocals
Vinicius Soares – drums (session drummer)

Release Date: April 3, 2026

Record Label: Good Fight Records

Discography:

Feed Me (2007)
Stop The Manipulation (EP) (2008)
Target Human Mission Destroy (2009)
Narcissistic Mechanism (2010)
Decay’s Beholder (2013) [review]
Anthropos (2022)
It’s Christmas, Not Happy Holidays (EP)
That Christmas Night (EP)
Bite My Byte (2026)

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Videos:

#hashtagdominatesyou (Visualizer)

The 666 Algorithm (Visualizer)

Automated Retarded (Visualizer)