The standout track is the title-track, which is up there with their best work, and will no doubt go down as a death metal classic. Old time OPETH fans will certainly love this song from the beginning, it travels back and forth between extreme and serene, perhaps even more intense on both ends than usual. What makes this track stand out from anything they have ever done is the repetitive outro. Positively haunting, OPETH uses a certain technique like they never have before: subtlety. The riff is solid with the double-bass, bass, and rhythm guitar chugging away over the same two notes for almost three solid minutes. However, the changes in the cymbals and simple yet eerie lead guitar carry what would normally be boring into something magical. I have not heard something in death metal that creates this type of mood for many years, and seeing them perform this live is positively hypnotizing.
