Carnal Forge are one of the best bands going right now...Awesome riffs, crushing guitar sound, immense drumming and a wicked vocalist...Really intense thrash band, good shit for anyone who enjoyed the first Haunted album...
IMO The S/T is the pinnacle of the Haunted's releases with MMDI coming right after it...the new album seemed to trade in a lot of the down-picked Judas Priest-ish chugging rhythms for tremelo picked 16ths at 240 bpm, which is cool in it's own right, but it takes away a lot of the heaviness that some of those songs could have had....it's like changing the picking pattern in the super heavy solo rhythm riff to a tremelo picked 16th note riff....not very heavy anymore is it?