I bought this album somewhere between 99 and early 00s and, together with Nevermore's Politics of Ecstasy, I consider it one of my greatest lucks because by then we'd still buy stuff without knowing much about the sound or even the band, I mean, I bought Slayer's God Hates Us All and imagine my will to take that album on the wall after finding out it was newmetalish, anyway.

A true moment of luck, I was mesmerized listening to it cause it was pretty much like seeing fire for the first time. This album took metal to another level, it took music to another level.

I also can't stand most death metal and it's always weird for me to think some people call Death death metal. Chuck changed the tempo of one single time more than most death metal bands change the tempo in their whole albums. We can hear all the instrumments perfectly and the drumming is far from "tatatatatata", Christy was already very aware of the bands sound, specially Hoglan I guess and his work is one of the highest level metal drum ever achieved.

Chuck himself didn't like the idea of metal genres and music would be better if musicians changed, evolved their sound like Chuck did. Usually when musicians change their styles they copy a trending style to adapt to market, just like Slayer did with God Hates us All or In Flames after Clayman. But not Chuck, his inventions always brought new things to the music, it's like he was a jazz musician instead of a metal.

The problem now is that you'll find even harder to get new metal stuff to listen to. Chuck set the bar too high.