This album is technical brutality from start to finish, however it does lose some of the personality and innovation from their first two albums, Blasphemy Made Flesh and None So Vile. It looks as if having their vocalist Lord Worm leave, and Mike DiSalvo join the band really fucked them up. For a start, DiSalvo isn't even really a death metal vocalist. He sounds more hardcore and generic, while Lord Worm's vocals were some of the most distinctive I've heard in death metal. The songs don't have the same definition as their previous material, and I think there are a few too many filler riffs. This album comes across as a huge disappointment based on my expectations of it, but from an unbiased point of view I'll say that this album is still a very worthy addition to my collection. The drumming still interacts extremely well with the guitar, and you can still expect Flo's drumming to be insane and superhuman, but the album does have it's lulls, where there is repetitive riffing with blast beats aimlessly thrown on top. There are only small parts of songs which remind the listener of the creativity and the expressiveness that this band once had.

This review is credited to:
Julian Forbes