Review by Death8699 on October 30, 2018.

Despite the negative feedback that Deicide was given for the quality of this release, I still think that it's underestimated. Sure the riffs are less complex and there's a limited amount of leads, but I think everything flowed throughout this whole album. We can do without the lyrics, but that's what makes Deicide Deicide. When I originally heard this album, I too had a negative opinion about it. Now with repeated listens to, I beg to differ.

Compared to past releases, the album is way less technical. That doesn't make it unworthy of praise. The riffs go well along with the vocals and backup vocals as well even though I think that it's only Glen doing the backup screams. His voice is burley as usual but this time, you can somewhat understand what he's saying without looking at the lyric sheet. 

The Hoffman brothers put forth quality music when writing this and I don't think that they got lazy, I just think that they wanted to put forth something less technical riff-wise. For Insineratehymn, it's back to the basics with the guitar playing. Still good leads, just a lot less of them. Tons of tremolo picked riffs mixed with basic picking. Glen's bass guitar could've been a little bit louder, but I think that it was good enough. I really liked the creativity on Deicide's part. They have had previous albums way more technical than this one, but overall, Insineratehymn hits home with me. Nothing wrong with the music, it flows. Sure they took a long while from their previous release to make another 30 minute album, but still I think that it's good. For guitarists like myself, we tend to be pretty critical when it comes to sub-par album releases. Just because this release isn't as technical as previous ones, there's no need to put this one down as a flop. Deicide tried to make it more basic when they wrote this album, nothing more. The leads could've been more incorporated in the mix, but what they put forth was enough I think.

Songs such as "Bible Basher" and "Standing In The Flames" are quite memorable. The production was decent. Jim Morris did a good job with the mixing of this album. For the most part, all of the instruments were mixed evenly even though like I said the bass could've been a bit louder. Everything else was finely heard, the guitar, drums and vocals.

Give it a try to accept this album that did so poorly with the feedback from fans. I think it's another good one to add to their discography. It's not too technical, but still catchy as all hell so try listening to it a few more times before you judge it. One hell of a sick album!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Review by JD on December 13, 2008.

Brutality and aggression... perfect two words that just starts to really explain what it is that the Swedish Death Metal Supergroup Bloodbath is all about. I hate the term ‘Supergroup’, but nothing else really describes the band.

Members of both Opeth and Katatonia along with the ex-21 Lucifers guitarist have been brought together, and has blasted the world with exactly what it is that Death Metal is all about. Brutal only sums up a little part of what this band has to offer... they take the Death Metal playbook, rips it all to shreds then just goes with what it raging in their collective hearts. Unabashed fury and soul searing, brain melting vehemence.

The whole thing shreds your mind and reduces you into a drooling mass of metal excitement almost as if you had a ‘sonic lobotomy’ performed on you. Songs like ‘Mock the Cross’ and ‘Hades Rising’ show maturity and explosiveness that is hard to ignore, and the lyrics are deliciously twisted and wholly demented as well.

Truthfully, the whole album just like this and more, and leaves you clamouring for more as you lay physically and mentally spent on the floor. Only the other infamous supergroup aptly called BrainDrill could ever match up with this massive wall of sheer aggression and pure metal force. Peaceville has found another good band for themselves again.

If you are wanting jolly ol’ Santa to give you the best gift for under the tree this year, tell him you want a Bloodbath. The perverted old man in red probably owns this opus of cranium melting as well... how else would he drown out the sickly sweet singing of all of those elves who slave for hi... without going postal on the little people?

Categorical Rating Breakdown

Musicianship: 9
Atmosphere: 9
Production: 9
Originality: 9
Overall: 9


Rating: 9 out of 10