The third full-length release by this two-man U.K. industrial black metal project is slightly less concerned than its immediate predecessor with injecting melody into the shrieking blast-furnace/blender noise that is their primary sound. There's a guitar solo on The Destroying Angel that's heavily indebted to Slayer's Kerry King, and a melodic chorus on Timewave Zero that recalls their previous effort, Domine Non Es Dignus, but for the most part it's a savage, ugly album produced and programmed with merciless precision. The programmed blastbeats create a foundation of cold inhumanity which is matched by the nihilism of the electronically altered vocals, while the guitar riffs, which seem doubled by heavily processed, in-the-red keyboards, saw at the listener's eardrums. These guys have taken Motörhead's dictum of "everything louder than everything else" and blended it with the Tyrell Corporation (from #Blade Runner) motto "More Human Than Human" to build something like a sonic Terminator. Some songs, like Between Shit and Piss We are Born and The Yellow King, offer a slightly more humanistic feel, and wind up approaching (if not incorporating -- Shane Embury guests on this album and plays with Anaal Nathrakh live) the fury of Napalm Death. By the time it winds down, the album does grow somewhat wearying; its constant abuse of the listener eventually starts to exhibit diminishing returns. But for much of its running time, it's the kind of record that makes you take a step backward in welcome surprise. ~ Phil Freeman, Rovi

1		Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes
2		Between Shit and Piss We Are Born
3		Time Wave Zero
4		The Destroying Angel
5		Waiting for the Barbarians
6		The Yellow King
7		When the Lion Devours Both Dragon and Child
8		The Necrogeddon
9		Regression to the Mean