purveyors of all things dynamic and harmonious greet the new millennium with slightly altered line-up and noticeably faster and more straightforward approach on their fifth studio album [2000], firmly confirming the role of Gothenburg death metal leaders - genius entity always manages to progress from one release to the other, and this is no exception either: diverse and heavy-weighted, not afraid to include clean vocals on more than few occasions, eleven tracker masterfully maintains intricacy and metal flavour throughout its contents, strengthening the role of rhythm section and enforcing tighter structural discipline, expanding guitar textures and sharpening the overall edge, what gives these songs additional weight and direction, still retaining electronic accents; recent German slipcase re-issue comes with a remastered sound, completely new artwork and four bonuses, including rare songs from 'Exposures' compilation [2004] and a live track
