Not great, but improves my opinion of the band tremendously. I was fully expecting retrothrash when I checked out their later releases, but the full length and
Resurrected Abominations were a hodgepodge of extreme metal sounds--it was if the band were going for Deathchain-style death/thrash but detoured into too many death and black metal influences and lost focus. This is what I initially expected from the band, and is reminiscent of late '90s Scandinavian retrothrash (though not as good as the albums that movement produced). Slayer cover is energetic but the vocals are a bad fit. They have a habit of peppering the studio tracks with needless extreme vocals.
The bonus live tracks are inoffensive filler and get better when the oft-uneven vocals settle into a kinda old Pagan Rites-sounding style. The closing Exodus cover isn't done that well but its familiarity makes it somewhat more interesting than the originals.
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