Polterchrist are a death metal band through and through but they do a great job and inject the genre with needed life. The short "Alone" opens the album with tight riffing and percussion. Polterchrist show a penchant for the dramatic with the long instrumental build up. Polterchrist also diversify their death metal attack with the guitar harmonic laden "The Art of Ferocity" and "Lies Pain Hate," the thrashing "Here We Lie" and the melodic "Desolate Paradise." -Transcending the Mundane zine.