16. Immortal - PyramazeYear of the Phoenix: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ADD8aUVlkgk
The Highland: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=16byHO-PxQk
Shadow of the Beast: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=_AKwgStqIsI
In the same vein as The Diarist, the placement of this album does not need to explained from the position of why it's good, it needs to be explained from the position of why it's not higher. To be blunt, Matt Barlow can't fill Lance King's shoes and driving the band towards a thrashier edge doesn't work as well as the previous set-up did. Of course, the benchmark that Pyramaze has set up is monolithic; this speaks less for the quality of this album and more for everything else Pyramaze has released. Pyramaze is still amazing, so they've still managed to make this album excellent, if not up to par with Pyramaze's previous efforts.