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This is the fifth record from this Greek melodic death combo. Again several guest appearances can be heard on this album. On the opening track "Delirium of the Fallen" we can enjoy the clean singing of Apollo Papathanasio (Spiritual Beggars, Firewind), a song in Arch Enemy/At the Gates style. On several other tracks Gus G (Ozzy Osbourne), Tomas Lindberg (At the Gates), Tom S. Englund (Evergrey) and John K (Biomechanical) contribute with their musical skills.

Fortunately there is one captain on the ship and that is Marios Iliopoulos. He has written some fine songs that have a lot of melody, but never loose the aggressiveness a real metal band needs. There is enough variation to be heard on the album. Thrash songs like "Cloaked in Wolf Skin" and "Hate Turns Black" are a big contrast to a song like "Solar Corona", but Nightrage gets away with it easily. That last song has a beautiful singing part of Tom Englund and that just gives the song the extra it needs. I would take turns on two wheels when I would say we have heard it all before and there is nothing new. I know you are right, it all sounds a lot like Arch Enemy/At the Gates and other bands in the genre, but the execution and the song writing is above average and it is a feast to listen to.

The album doesn't win the price for most original album of the year and it will not end in top of most of the end of the year lists, but this is an above average melodic death album and the band deserves to be listened to.

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