Afflicted - Prodigal Sun

Sweden's Afflicted here, a death metal band who's earlier material was a lot better than their later stuff (their 2nd album had a lot more in common with power metal, moving further and further away from their roots). This was the bands debut, which featured some good stuff (and some particularly average stuff, in comparison to their stellar demo material under the name Afflicted Convulsion). This is the original first pressing on Nuclear Blast (it was re-issued years later in digipak form by stalwart re-issuers Metal Mind Records of Poland).