Akeldama

by The Faceless

Akeldama cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 November 2006
  • Label: Sumerian
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:18
  • Community rating: 3.54/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Derek Rydquist, Brandon Giffin, Lyle Cooper, Steve Jones, Sergio Flores, Geoffrey Fico, Michael Keene, Evan Brewer, Wes Hauch

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This debut release established the California band as a leading force in the emerging technical deathcore movement. The lightning-fast sweep picking, complex time signatures, and brutal breakdowns heavily influenced a new generation of extreme metal musicians.

Genres

Descriptors: fantasy, technical, melodic, violence, uncommon-time-signatures

Tracklist

  1. An Autopsy (3:11)
  2. Pestilence (3:54)
  3. All Dark Graves (3:50)
  4. Horizons of Chaos, Pt. 1: The Foretelling (3:38)
  5. Horizons of Chaos, Pt. 2: Oracle of the Onslaught (3:43)
  6. Leica (5:12)
  7. Akeldama (5:51)
  8. Ghost of a Stranger (3:55)

Credits

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