"Between the earth-shaking riffs, canyon-wide grooves and the brutally honest lyrical content, Filth makes for an extremely heavy listen.

The contrasting personal beliefs of [Collin] Simula and [Jack] Huston give Maranatha a unique and unfiltered perspective regarding spirituality, and as the record's name indicates, Filth is really all about the filthy side of this world we live in.

"[1] Shayne Mathis of FullMetalHipster writes "Straight outta my home state of Ohio comes Maranatha.

"[5] "With all that said, I think the most important part of the Maranatha is not so much their sound, but the lyrical tension between the injustice of this world and finding peace with in it.

It's a constant push and pull against black and white, depravity and morality, and the hypocrisy of those who claim to know the way and preach a message of love out of one side of their mouths and a doctrine of ignorance and sometimes pure hate out of the other.