Even though they count as a quite old school formation, their music was heavily influenced by the actual tendencies of the local and main scene. Their early music wore the features of ordinary Eastern European bands, for instance poor production quality and experimenting ambitions mainly led by the lack of common ground of the band members. But already by their second album they've returned with unified style, concept and sound. That era was the beginning of a technical/progressive brutal death wave in the underground, and that period has left a permanent mark on their music. This was led further on their third album "...Closer to Hell". Even though they did have musically interesting and weird solutions, experimenting themes and song structures, they didn't go too far with them, these haven't been too determining for the main view, and they kept returning to old school and brutal death themes. The lyrical concept also stayed at grotesque and gore based topics. Despite how fast they complied to the tendencies of the main scene, probably the mainstream cream of death metal bands have been their main influences, bands like Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Deicide and Kataklysm. While listening it might be difficult to decide do they take themselves seriously or absolutely not, because sings for both could be found on the album (especially when punk-like themes showing up). Probably the answer lies somewhere in between. However "...Closer to Hell is quite an enjoyable album, mainly recommended to the fans of brutal death.
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