This fifth album from the Richmond, VA metal band is the follow-up to 2006's ' Sacrament' & is their first for Roadrunner. Once painted as torchbearers for the " New Wave Of American Heavy Metal", the band have overcome stylistic typecasting to evolve their own immediately identifiable sound. Although still brutally heavy with shredding leads & vicious anti-religious lyrics delivered in a pained bellow, this album sees the band trying some new musical tricks & has a cleaner, less processed,