This is, as far as I know, the only metal album to sample Blackadder. Bellum Omnium Contra Ommnes has a great chorus as does Between Piss and Shit We Are Born- this album has more obviously catchy sections than previous ones- on Timewave Zero this new mode falls down a bit. There are some repetitive in-a-bad-way parts on this album which I find myself skipping to get to the good stuff, and by now the innovation of what Anaal Nathrakh does which was of course quite impressive is wearing a little thin. I suppose the clean vocal sections and more melodic bits are an attempt to not sound the same, and I was sceptical originally but now I think it's pretty commendable, ...  Read the complete review

After the slight disappointment of their 2004 album, Anaal Nathrakh return better than ever with 'Eschaton,' again dealing with annihilation and destruction (this time in the form of the 2012 Mayan prophecy) and possessing the brutal sound to back it up for the first time since the debut release. This is a perfect example of a band learning from its successes and failures, and the resulting album is more or less a synthesis of the mindlessly violent first album with some of the more epic tendencies of the second, finally creating the sound the band has been striving for all along. While the performances from Irrumator and V.I.T.R.I.O.L are as good as ever, the ...  Read the complete review