The riff that pulses through the opening title track is both infectious and devastating. Curran Murphy and Dusty Holt's dueling guitars are given an almost picture-perfect stomping ground through the record's bottom-heavy mix, and Greg Wagner flexes his pipes with the confidence you'd expect from a seasoned veteran. Subsequently, "Crucified Freedom" amounts to a three minute exercise in expertly delivered, hook-laden aggression, while "Deny God" works as a haunting and emotive moment of relative calm. It's only on the odd occasion when the quintet shift gears and try their hand at old school death metal that the need for tighter quality control across the album's fourteen tracks is made apparent. For the rest, this is prime heavy metal goodness that will have you back for another fix more often than most.