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. It was released on March 30, 2000. The album was accompanied by a music video for the song "Dysgenics".

Critical reception

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'' spoke highly of the album, comparing the album's sound to that of ''

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''. He also praised the production, with the "double-bass drums pounding heavy and proud and vocalist Yanic growling, whispering, speaking and screaming nicely over the whole thing." ''

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'' also spoke highly of the album and called Quo Vadis "one of the best bands to come from North America in the last years, and an underrated act also." ''

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'' cited the album as being "played at a high technical level and implemented with a transparent production" but criticized the vocals, stating they "lag behind the rest of the instrumentation in terms of quality."

Track listing

Personnel

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– vocals, guitar, solo on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 *

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– guitars, solo on tracks 7 and 10 *

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– bass *

Yanic Bercier Yanic Bercier is a Canadian physicist and musician. Aside from being the former drummer for melodic technical death metal band Quo Vadis and the more traditional death metal band Violence Unleashed, he also sessions for other bands such as T ...

– drums, backing vocals

Guest musicians

*Claude Picard - keyboards

References

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