Bereavement

An excellent pre-release from a band not afraid to innovate in a very tired genre, this album features solid semi-technical death metal (a la Anasarca) with a heavy use of well-executed keyboards playing acutal melodies instead of chords. The general feel of the album is a modern death metal update of Iron Maiden with piano, if that makes any sense at all. Vocals and drumming and overall song construction are fine, but not overly impressive or creative.

Thier full-length is just as good if not better than this release.