This band started out as a Slayer copycat band, transformed into a death metal band and then moved into a metalcore infected band. Their previous record The Hammering Process was misinterpreted as a hardcore album by some. Well, the hardcore influence was evident anyway. On Conceived In Fire the five guys in Living Sacrifice seem to go in the opposite direction. The development is still small, but discernable. The hardcore influence is getting weaker, the metal bigger. Two tracks are even reminiscent of old Living Sacrifice: Separation & The Martyr. Also the solos in these tracks are much like solos on the first few albums. This is death metal in your face. The other eleven tracks are more in the vein of The Hammering Process. Even the screaming is more grunt like. Now having described the music, what do I think of Conceived In Fire? The production and sound is excellent, the playing tight as it can be and the "old" tracks give some variation on an album that sometimes becomes boring as hardly any of the other eleven songs sticks out in my memory. This is hard, uncompromising music, hitting hard as a sledgehammer yet doesn't make much of an impression on me. This might be a matter of taste.
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