Victims of This Fallen World

This album displays a very different Kataklysm. Here is where the band decided to move towards a more melodic sound exchanging their chaotic song structure for groove. They are starting to sound here a bit similar to Benediction but with more complex, melodic and layered riffage.

Maurizio Iacono's voice shifts from growling Barney Greenway to screeching Glen Benton with mastery in excellent double vocals. Sometimes screaming in both styles at the same time.

Now this might be a shock for the fans of the old Kataklysm style...

There are no really weak songs in the album. Only some weak passages.
The drums are very good, except by the noisy but inexpressive hyperblasts. And some of the groovy parts here and there are just TOO GROOVY, sounding sometimes like hip hop or rap played with distorted guitars (but relax, it is not).

Some parts in "Caged In" sound like New York streets' rap giving the song something like a Biohazard vibe. The funny thing is that even though I completely despise rap I do find this song very interesting.

The album is still overall excellent. And I confess I listen to it a lot more than their older childish XUL stuff. Very brutal passages blended in intelligent, creative guitar riffs and harmonics fuse Melodic Swedish Death Metal style with modern Grindcore.

The last two tracks are slower than the rest of the album but both excellent compositions.

"I remember" is a very good track. Very different from what they have been doing in their previous releases. There is even a violin sound in it.

The next track "World Treason 2" is very different too and maybe even better. It is a beautiful and simple instrumental track, sounding like a crossbreed of Megadeth's and Hypocrisy's slow tunes.

This album is for the open-minded.