Something that kind of shocked me to begin with in this album, was the band's usage of clean vocals. This (to me) proved to be a less than stellar aspect of the disc. Fortunately enough the forementioned vocal stylings don't really compromise the powerful song structures the band has grown famous for and they appear few and far between. Voracious listeners of the band's past work, may see this as a huge downfall, but I think that the small fallback is pretty easily forgotten when digging deeper into the bulk of the album. Another thing that's also easily noticed when jumping into the album is that the sound quality is more polished-up. Not to the point of really compromising the sound as many witnessed with Arsis' "United in Regret," but the sound difference is enough to really throw listeners off at first, so you should definitely not be expecting material as raw as their last album "The Archaic Abattoir".

   In tracks such as "The Chondrin Enigma," "Avenious," "The Spaying Seance," and "Ingenuity in Genocide" (to name a few) the newly instated shred solos have really proved to be a great success onto this album. In past works, I won't lie, I managed to find myself tired of hearing the same non-stop gore-grind mixture over and over. With this new aspect brought to the table, I think the band lets out plenty of more progressive sounding death riffs. This to me is already a comfortable fit to the band's equation. Other tracks such as "And Carnage Basked in its Ebullience," "Archetype," and "Underneath Rorulent Soil" offer a kind of change to the band's formula, with either slower introductions or slower riffs with classical metal beats. This to me is just a minor change that shouldn't effect any previous thoughts of the band, it just supports the more progressive sound I mentioned earlier.