A strong album but not quite one of the strongest Manilla Road releases. One could say this is pretty typical Manilla Road release which is not a slightest problem for me. The epicness is there in the form of longer songs and acoustic pieces, the captivating riffs and solos are carrying the songs from the beginning till the end with only a few moments that I'd call as dragging or boring. Songs such as the title track, "Abattoir De La Mort", "Fire Of Ashurbanipal" and "Art Of War" are really what I consider as the band's classics in their modern era.

I dont like artwork, dont fits to this band. I can put this in 2 parts. First opening part of album are like previous weird experimental song writing , as previous one,
Second is they somehow tried epic slower, ballads style songs and it worked. Best song . Art Of War, also stands out: Playground Of The Damned, and Grindhouse

Almost through the album I wanted to give it a 5.
Then came The Art of War and I uprated to a 6.