The World is Broken is KforKill’s first real tilt at muscling into the metal scene with an EP from 2013 being their solitary output prior. Unsurprisingly, the album is being released by the band themselves, not uncommon for a debut record. What does deviate from the norm is that The World is Broken is produced and mixed by fellow Dane, Jacob “Everything louder than everything else” Hansen, a man renowned for his knob-twiddling duties for bands such as Volbeat, Aborted and Amaranthe. I’m not sure whether KforKill was beaten into shape by Hansen or that he noticed a vein of untapped potential but The World is Broken doesn’t sound like the clumsy pawing of an unsigned, untested band struggling to unhook the proverbial musical bra. Instead we’re treated to a crisp, focused torrent of pummeling death metal that while offering little in the way of innovation is delivered confidently and professionally.