Melodic death metal played fast, aggressive and at some points very melancholic, but this last adjective doesn’t really rule the album. There is an obvious “At the Gates” or maybe a little more “Detonation” way of playing in this album, the growls are deep and covered by speedy guitars that can deploy a simple but catchy riff, the production is acceptable but for some reason it places the vocals on the back of everything else, making hard to appreciate a quite good singer; there are some clean vocal incursions, they get it right in “Point beyond delirium” but they sound really awkward in “Distant star”, there is also a couple of keyboards involve in the mix, they sound quite shy and for some reason they end up not fitting, still the songs are so well structured and performed that even with awkward clean vocals in some parts and shy keyboards, the songs end up sounding great.

There is a nice long solo in “A perfect kind”, the drums sound sort of artificial and the keyboard incursion here is quite bad, but still the song rules; I mean this guys try to sabotage their own work adding too much of other elements to their good mellow death sound, they really don’t need the keyboards or the clean vocals, they already have a nice heavy and catchy base to deploy mayhem from, I don’t know why they try to add so much with so little.

“Spiritual Waste” is a short album approximately 28 minutes, a short album with killer riffs and a solid melodic sound, they have this early Gothenburg sound going on that really catches you by surprise, you know some early Dark Tranquillity in the cleaner parts and brutal like the new melodic wave coming from Holland.

A nice album, with some flaws due to the placement of elements that the songs didn’t need, but like I’ve been saying there is some really good melodic death metal in here.