(22 Aug. 2010)
This album is 23(sic) minutes of intricate, excellently played and very enjoyable technical death metal riffing that is also quite easy to get into. Matt Heafy has been criticized, but, to say the least, his singing fits well with the guitar tone, which is slightly raw, but very clear, similar to the vocals. The vocals are also sometimes done by Jason Suecof, and they sound more like your standard death metal growls.
One really good decision here was to not add the mandatory slower doomy track, like many Death Metal bands seem obliged to add somewhere, which would have made the album seem even shorter than it is, and completely ruined the flow. Sadly, to compensate, they added the track The Scourge Trial, with an ungodly production and feels more like filler than anything else. In addition, the album ends with a useless jam session for a few minutes before fading out. You make a ridiculously short album and still think you can add filler.
So, in conclusion, an album with some great tracks, but unfortunately very short and with some filler, ergo, having about 23 minutes of actual material.
Standout tracks:
Ingrained
Perpetual Catatonia
Icon Of Malice
Reins Of Humanity
Refusal (until around the middle)
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