

Nevertheless, a moral victory was on the horizon for this quartet turned power trio by the time the mid-90s was giving way to the latter part of the decade, due to a combination of an updated formula and a beefed up production courtesy of the same engineer who first cut his teeth in the control room on this band's 1993 debut.

Such was the disposition of dark horse of the early Swedish melodic death metal scene Eucharist, a band that had more breakups than they did albums to their name, and enough lineup shifts during their less than prolific run in the 1990s to rival outfits that had been plugging away in the metal scene for twice as long. Instability can be the arch nemesis of greatness, or at least that is the case when it comes to a band that should have rivaled the titans of their day, but ultimately did not.
