starts pretty strong with the first three tracks which are very comparable to their early output, brisk semi-technical thrashers; but loses steam later with longer softer compositions where progressive metal and rock fight for domination with mixed results. Decidedly better than the preceding "Volition" demo and their last full-length "The Next Room", but still far from their finest hour.

this is very far from the band's early melo-death/thrash efforts; this is atmospheric extreme progressive metal with doom, industrial, and gothic heard throughout. For fans of later-period Septicflesh, the Norwegians Ram-Zet, more recent Atrocity (Germany)

this is astounding technical/progressive thrash/death; loads of original decisions, mazey multi-layered stuff that juggles through a lot of riff-patterns. This isn't overtly brutal, but the sudden speedy passages are a wonder to listen to amongst the clever, visionary riff mosaics.

excellent technical death; original decisions and weird angular riffage, think more recent Deeds of Flesh but without too many brutal sections; a few shades of Swedish melo-death on the more straight-forward moments as well

excellent edgy progressive metal, sometimes atmospheric and creepy, sometimes more aggressive with a shade of thrash... there's very little gothic here, though, if any at all. This is more along the lines of Andromeda, and Zero Hour on the more complex sections.

a bit more surreally and atonally executed than the last two efforts, but brilliant stuff nonetheless; outstanding progressive/technical death metal of the psychedelic, at times also quite atmospheric, type

a cool little effort that resembles late-80's/early-90's Fates Warning quite a bit, only more aggressive and more roughly produced. It's more progressive than power, but has both a vibe and an edge.

excellent progressive thrash with expressive attached female vocals; music-wise this resembles the style of another female-fronted German act, Megace, but the approach here is more complex, with longer labyrinthine compositions

Our favourite satanist has become a classic doom metal provider... pretty cool stuff but not having much to do with the death/black extremities of Acheron

pretty much another masterpiece... sometimes shreddy, sometimes thrashy, sometimes spacey... but always complex and multi-layered. No unpleasasnt surprises of any kind

an awesome comeback stint from the UK veterans; solid proggy-speed/thrash of the old school, not always similar to their old style. There's a new guitar player in the line-up, and the man is unstoppable, filling in the space with brilliant virtuoso guitar work.

this is not really heavy metal, at least for most of the time; this is a mixture of thrash and groovy post-thrash, a hesitation between the old and the new school. Strange unusual stuff, with some of the songs combining furious thrashing with calm balladic sections... not so bad

I don't understand why this band continue to be flagged around as just death/grindcore hybriders... their music is very technical death metal, complex multi-layered stuff that is easily a highlight even on the very competitive Polish scene.

This new opus is no exception, another intricate hyper-active collection of songs, a delight to fans of Deeds of Flesh, Spawn of Possession, Arsebreed... the Czechs T.O.O.H. as well

excellent stuff, complex varied progressive with a lot of interesting twists, think a mix of Psychotic Waltz's "A Social Grace", early Canvas Solaris and Sanctuary's "Into the Mirror Black". Very good soulful clean vocals as well

twisted unusual stuff... echoes of Demilich, Cosmic Atrophy, Timeghoul as well (the guys make a cover of the latter on the "Reek of Putrescine" single); atonal arhythmia crossed with more linear intense passages. Interesting, strange music

As Distillator the guys were doing a much better job, very intriguing technical old school thrash... here what we have is average modern thrash/death with slight progressive pretensions, think poor man's Darkane. Perfectly skippable

Sadus meets Hellwitch... an old school technical and quite aggressive death/thrash hybrid; a bit more complex than the previous two albums, and probably superior

much more diverse than previous recordings... there's thrash, but there's also progressive, doom, power, speed, death, psychedelia... an interesting, unusual combination that will take a few listens in order to sink in. Great leads all around, though; the lead guitarist is the absolute star of the show.

boring tedious 90's post-thrash; this is so far from Dark Angel having in mind that two members of the thrash legends participated here... perfectly skippable by the old school thrash fanbase

mighty stuff... classic speed/thrash, as expected. Can't wait to hear the full-length...

Wow, what a fresh-sounding, classic metal masterpiece; great stuff! power, doom, progressive, heavy, thrash, speed... a most handsome melting pot of styles. And this vocalist... a stunning very passionate tenor. Venezuela has talent, that's for sure. A very pleasant surprise

there's not much thrash here; this is quite comparable to the band's debut, "Half in Shadows" (1994), a progressive power/doom metal mixture not far from the 90's Swedish wave (Memento Mori, Veni Domine, Abstrakt Algebra, Pathos, etc.).

very weird, outlandish music; shades of Demilich's "Nespithe", Molested's "Blod-Draum"... visionary old school death metal with both speedy and atmospheric parts mixed together. A lot of captivating melodic tunes as well

this is retro thrash/death actually, very technical and twisted stuff, with nice atmospheric etudes. A very interesting listen with echoes of the 90's Dutch school (Creepmime, Rhadamantys, Phlebotomized)

this has very little to do with death metal; this is very strange weird music which can pass for progressive, alternative, rock, doom... minimalistic psychotic stuff that distantly resembles early Alchemist (Australia)