IMMOLATION's album "Close to a World Below" is considered a legendary and highly influential death metal album, maintaining a rare distinct flavor that sets it apart from other significant releases. While many tech-death bands have been influenced by the album's use of dissonance and unconventional structure, Immolation stands out for pushing these ideas to their absolute limits. Unlike most metal and tech-death bands that focus primarily on riffs, Immolation takes a more holistic approach, deconstructing and reconstructing the genre in a subtly different yet impactful way with this album. "Close to a World Below" is a noisy and ferocious masterpiece that, while unmistakably death metal, possesses a unique tone that few have been able to replicate. 12"LP format.