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What the hell happened here? Entropy started out as a Technical Thrash act with their debut, but in the three years it took to release their sophomore album, Transcendence, it seems they made the mistake many bands at the time did and started to add large amounts of Groove to their sound. Most of the technicality and melodic sensibility of the previous album is absent here, instead being replaced with simplistic songwriting, dull groove riffs, and generic aggro vocals that remind me of Pantera, which is not a favorable comparison to make. There are places where they flash some of their old magic, like most of the solos and the song "Ritual Tempest", whose more technical approach wouldn't be out of place on Ashen Existence. They even have a few ballads with "Innocence Lost" and album closer "The Breed", the former of which is pretty good while the latter sounds like a half-hearted attempt to sound like later Metallica. Sadly, even the good stuff on here isn't that great, and it's certainly not worth sitting through the mind-numbing tedium that makes up the rest of the album to get to. The band broke up some time after this release, and while they'd reform over a decade later, all I can say about this release is that it was a fucking downgrade to go out on. Skip it.