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2000 re-issue with two bonus tracks Upon first listen to ‘Five Across The Eyes’, two words that immediately spring to mind are ‘Cannibal’ and ‘Corpse’. Iniquity are obviously influenced by them, especially in the guitar playing, with its myriad guitar-shrieks and pinch harmonics that positively reek of the corpse (just listen to the first riff on ‘From Tarnished Soil’ and tell me that isn't an overt Corpse-rip off). However, Iniquity plays death metal that is extremely well-performed, and the song-structures are pretty involving for the most part. "Inhale The Ghost" kicks things off with walls of impressive, choppy guitar riffs and fast, double-bass-driven grooves. The vocals sound a lot like Corpsegrinder. Each song that follows is pretty much along the same path as well, with plenty of time changes and odd times aplenty. Another band I'm reminded of is ‘False’-era Gorefst on songs like ‘Random Bludgeon Battery’, a fast and furious metallic assault. My only complaint with many of the songs is the way in which the band seems to insist on slowing down the pace to a dirge halfway through, then returning to the quick double-time again at the end of the song. It becomes a bit predictable, and brings the intensity down several notches almost every time. Track listing: 1. Inhale The Ghost 2. Surgical Orb 3. Sidereal Seas 4. Random Bludgeon Battery 5. From Tarnished Soil 6. Reminecene 7. Pyres Of Atonement 8. The Rigormortified Grip 9. Forensic Alliance 10. Desiderated Profligacy 11. The Hidden Lore