Release Year: 2011
Artist Origin: ITA
Style: intricate technical neosymphonic death metal
building on foundation laid by the longplay debut couple of years earlier and having signed a significant record deal, the suited innovators of new generation of extreme metal only accelerate with their second full-length, consistently narrating the cycle of human suffering and degradation, powerfully enhanced by orchestral arrangements, choirs, and theatrical drama - it has already become natural for them to fuse all this with an intensely crushing death metal direction, forming an apt synthesis of rage, sorrow, and grandeur, yet achieving far richer, more monumental sound and broader emotional range, while strict compositional order and cohesive flow make the music feel remarkably unified, elevating their vision to an entirely new level; authentic German edition comes with an additional Carcass Heartwork cover