Denomination are from Germany and after one e.p., this is their first full length opus. This one contains 13 songs, two of them being intro and outro. After an ominous war fueled intro, the carnage starts. Denomination play old school death metal, leaning heavily on European school, mainly nineties old school Swedish death metal, not sounding like a clone, but bringing the style to new millennia. There are also blast beats, but I love how some songs also have that unmistakable d beat insignia and great strong growling vocals, coupled with razor sharp guitar riffs, but hiding behind all the brutality, there lays a melody, and that melody brings a melancholy to chaos, a pain to war if you want to put it that way. Songs like Bugs, Left hand of god, Cleansing flames are sure to win you over if you are a fan of such kind of death metal. This is a very strong debut album and a lesson in Euro death metal, how it should be done.

8/10