Put simply, after playing this slab of crushing death metal, there won't be much left of your house, let alone your cranium. No holds barred from start to finish courtesy of five guys whose aim is simply to create brutal and technical music. Nine tracks, the demolition beginning with the battering frenzy of 'Leige Of Inveracity', climaxing with the lung bursting 'Jesus Wept'. Suffocation have a big cult following, the bands ultra heaviness, complex arrangements, trigger drums and guttural moans thanks to Frank Mullen, making them one hell of an extreme cacophony. Never too fast to make it incomprehensible, this is wonderfully measured devastation. Although it emerged amongst a wave of slightly similar acts, all intent on gore-infested death meta, ' Effigy...' stands the test of time, and still reduces much of the landscape to ash today. Slightly blighted by its artwork which resembles countless other death metal acts, Suffocation still have the ability to make you weep...
7.5/10
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