Review of Effigy of the Forgotten by Suffocation. *** Needs More Diversity, but Good Musicianship

The musicianship and effort put into making this album is tremendous.  The problem is all the songs pretty much sound the same (to me).  I would imagine most people would find this album indistinguishable from Pierced from Within.  Why have an album at all, if they are going to be the same?  There are some really good songs on this one though.  As far as death metal goes, Suffocation is among the top 5 bands.  I was lucky to see them play live once, and they were awesome!  I would imaging Lamb of God fans would really like Suffocation.  However, I myself, lack understanding of what Lamb of God and so many of these bands that all seem to use the same distortion sound, and the same cookie monster voice for song after song.  It’s hard to have different emotions about these songs.  They go from fast angry aggression to slow pounding mosh pit aggression.