On the surface very much in love with the Testimony of the Ancients era Pestilence, this band injects a sensibility of moods more like the technical albums from Immolation and Gorguts, replacing a frenetic urgency with more varied tempi and therefore, more adaptive riffing.

Much of what makes these songs work is an old school perspective on gluing riffs together that could have easily come from Demigod or Asphyx, allowing a building of mood through its own contradiction, like a Socratic dialectic of opposites converging on a sense of function.

Aesthetically, the guitar riffing aims for the open interval off-beat jazziness of middle period Pestilence (and the vocals echo this) but with more of the flexible riff structure of earlier releases, giving this band a voice that, if it develops, could bridge the underground with the present.

Tags: cryoxyd, death metal, Progressive Death Metal, progressive metal, Technical Death Metal