For those of you familiar with Living Sacrifice, you know as well as I do that with each progressing album, the sound has changed in small distinct ways, yet this makes each album set apart and different from one another. The vocals of Darren Johnson have gone from yelling, to an indecipherable growl, then finally to death. The guitars are also tuned way down and distorted as compared to the others.
When I first got this CD two years ago, I hated it, and never listened to it. Every song seemed to be the same, and it bored me. However, after listening to it more and more, it has grown on me and become my favorite L.S. album by far. This CD has more double bass kicks than just about any other album I have ever heard, and Lance Garvin does it just as good or better than anyone. Upon careful inspection, there are many acoustic interludes in these songs that add a whole new dimension to death metal, and I really enjoy that.
Notable tracks on this disc are "Inhabit", "Mind Distant", and "Departure". All of these are brutal songs with great speed and drumming. The best thing about this CD definitely occurs at the very end. The song "Departure" is actually a two-part song that is ten minutes long. Departure is the first three minutes, and "Dead Silence" is the other seven. In my opinion, Dead Silence is the best instrumental of all time, and it is dedicated to all the people who have lost someone to suicide. This really rounds out a great CD.
9/10
Other Staff Member Ratings
D_Lister: 9/10
Other coverage for this album
Dead Zine 2002Reviewed by SFhxcSFThis is the best christian death metal ever, if you want to argue otherwise, good for you. I so wish Lance Garvin would've kept this drum setup...hopes only hopes. Guitars.....what can you say about a six stringed piece of wood with coil wound magnets transmitting an electrical signal through a cord to an amplifier where it is amplified into some sound...well in the case of horribly awful music…The Phantom Tollbooth 2000Reviewed by Israel KlossWhether you call it death metal, speed metal, thrash or just plain heavy metal, Living Sacrifice is certainly a rowdy excursion into the world of aggressive music. While thrash might be the best categorization of Living Sacrifice's music, it is probably a good idea to delineate some of the boundaries, blurred though they are, between the genres of aggressive music: death metal--growling, slow,…Heaven's Metal #48Reviewed by Phil BorreroAs with anything in life, you, of course, want to improve. Living Sacrifice, since their debut album, has changed vocally and has added more velocity to what was already thought of as lightning speed. The four boys from Arkansas don't stop, but only keep improving. Inhabit shows musical maturity in that these guys can get slow 'n' heavy as a ton of bricks; but, at the same time, turn that around…Similar sounding releases
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2001xDisciplexDoxology
1998Day of AtonementCremation of the Guilty
1992CruciferFestival of DeathMore from Living Sacrifice
1990No Yielding to Ungodly
2000The Hammering Process
1991Living Sacrifice
1992Nonexistent
2002Conceived In Fire
2005In Memoriam
