like a spike-adorned pendulum between dark blasts of light-speed death metal...

As someone who appreciates excellent writing, not to mention someone who loves me some death metal, I was truly impressed by a two-and-a-half-year-old review I recently read in Decibel. Check out this sentence by Kevin Stewart-Panko in a review of The Red Chord's "Clients" album:

Clients swings like a spike-adorned pendulum between dark blasts of light-speed death metal (artificial harmonics included!) to infectious and effective basic power chord progressions and back to violent expressions of technicality all played with the fervor of a starving pit bull gnashing on the flesh of a mail carrier, and the screams of your postie are what vocalist Guy Kozowyk appears to be interpreting with his dexterous vocal battering.

By the way, I have this album, and his description couldn't be any more right on.