SYMBOLIC

After reading a review claiming against this albums progressive merits I had to think about my rating for awhile. The review I read claimed that everything this album offers had already been done in the 80´s. After thinking I came to the conclusion that it may be so, but this is still to me the perfect death metal album.

This album has everything a death metal album needs. You´ve got good crunchy, powerful, and even catchy riffs in all the songs. We have Gene Hoglan playing drums whose style is perfectly fitting for this album. Chucks voice is so crisp here that it makes me shiver.

There´s no real need for me to go into this song by song, because the same things apply for each of them.

Any one intrested in the heavier side of progressive rock should hear this, because this a masterpiece of this genre.