Review by Adam M on May 14, 2025.

This album captures Morbid Angel at their rawest and purest form.  It shows the band in their most distinctive fashion.  It displays a band up and coming and full of vitality.  Though Morbid Angel would change, they would never capture the purity of this release again.  The songs are memorable and feature a good amount of crazy riffage.  This is a well-performed romp in the past.

The instrumental portions of the album are all very brutal and appropriate. There is a need to be rawer than previous releases, but the crazy riffage still spruces things up.  The vocals of David Vincent are very distinctive and make for an entertaining affair.  The drums are pounding, but not as present as Azagthoth’s guitars.  All in all the slightly rawer album than others from the band, but still very good. 

If there is a flaw to be found it’s that the album is not as innovative or developed as other by the band.  It is thus a more classical view of their sound.  This album is still not the best death metal release ever and is overshadowed by the like of release like Entombed’s Left Hand Path.  This is still an essential listen and necessary to the development of the genre.

All in all, I loved this album and it made a great impact upon me with its raw performances.  There is a ton of memorable, moments.  It all makes for a rousing listen that is very important and necessary for the death metal genre.  It could still be improved upon with more innovation, but this is undeniably a classic.

Rating: 7.7/10

Review by Adam M on August 14, 2014.

This album has a penchant for a Suffocation-type style. There are those rapid fire riffs you would come to expect from that band in full fledge here. Quick time changes are frequently found on Deathscapes of the Subconscious as well, leading to a somewhat dizzying death metal experience. The band has a great amount of variety that mixes things up nicely, but unusually also becomes a little unfocused at other times. At other times, however, the riffs are dynamic and compelling.

Usually the amount of good material here overshadows the slightly overindulgent passages that rarely occur. The constant shifting and changing of the riff patterns is quite remarkable at times, even rivaling the very best of Suffocation. Omnihility sounds unique enough to be an exciting new entry to the genre that takes elements of the classics and combines it with their viewpoint on technical death metal. While I've mentioned the riffs, the drumming is rather impressive and offers a nice backbone to the technical music played on top of it. Vocals are of the grimy quality that David Vincent, John Tardy or Frank Mullen all hold. They’re the weakest portion of the musicianship aspect of the disc, but still complement the music reasonably well. In terms of highlights, “The Unnamable” brings an exciting and impassioned energy to the table that will have you very excited. The band should try to become a bit more distinctive in their style for the future.

Omnihility have a solid template created and can only build positively upon things later on. I would expect a bit of tightening of the moments that seem to get out of hand from a technicality standpoint as well. This is regardless solid death metal that should appeal to both technical fans of the genre as well as those that appreciate the classics.

Rating: 7.5/10

Review by Adam M on December 13, 2016.

Meshiaak performs a very modern form of thrash. There are certainly other styles blended into their overall mix like hardcore. This is because of the very upfront sound that has a heavy bass presence. The sound is similar to the other hardcore influenced band that I can think of Sylosis as much as it is older Metallica.

This full bodied sound certainly has an impact, however, because there haven’t been many great thrash releases this year. When inspecting it next to the new Anthrax, one can see less of a classical orientation and more of the modern position. The production is crisp and helps put the massive guitar riffs at the forefront. Musicianship is just as rigidly accomplished with tight guitars taking the place above solid drumming. One can worship the musicianship on the track It Burns at Both Ends where there is some interesting guitar interplay. This is entirely the type of thrash release that needs to be played to fill in the gap for this type of release this year. Although Revocation did release an album, the more modern thrash definitely goes along with that classic sound performed by Anthrax and Death Angel. There is simply that sheen that has the edge of these recent bands and elevates the album up into the higher registers of the albums of the year. The thing that prevents this from being an altogether beast of an album is perhaps this hardcore aspect the band has. It makes them sound sort of simple when compared to the Anthrax, for example.

However, the amount of variation and hugeness of the riffs does take this release and place it with that one as the two best from the genre this year. It is nice to have one release of each type of thrash at the top of the heap this year. It should be noted that those that enjoy grunge will find something to like with Alliance of Thieves as well. As a debut release this is very strong stuff.

Rating: 8 out of 10