In "A Shedding of Skin" Protector plays a combination of fast, thrash metal style riffs, with slow, death metal style chugging. Protector's style is purely fun, energetic and exciting. Let there be no misunderstanding. If you want something existential and contemplative, look elsewhere. But if you want fierce metal, carry forth.

This album starts off with an acoustic intro with a synthesizer and field recording with sounds of bugs and birds which sets a calm atmosphere. Then the album kicks right off with the song mortuary nightmare. The guitars are piercingly fast and the bass gives a steady death metal undertone in time to the guitars. It's absolutely relentless. The vocals are harsh and raspy.

Without stopping for breath, the song "A Shedding of Skin is the same principle of heavy riffs, except instead of being just fast, it slows down a tad periodically to be played at a steady, heavier pace. At around the 2 minute mark the band really slows down, the bass begins to lumber and the guitar plays an awesome slow riff. This is my favorite part of protector's style, their ability to shift pace so quickly and still maintain their style.

The song "face fear" starts off with more relentless riffing and soon there's a change of pace to slow at the minute mark followed by an explosion which gives way to a guitar solo, the guitar's tone is screaming. The song ends with fast riffs.

"Retribution in Darkness" is a furious barrage of riffs. Before you know it Doomed to failure is playing, and you may not realize it until the 1 minute mark when the band slows down briefly. Whenever the band slows down or speeds up, they do it in a way where it's unique, and there's times on this album that are very memorable. The kind of thing where a riff will start playing in your head and when you figure out what song it's from you want to listen to it. The same pattern of playing occurs repeatedly throughout the whole album. I love it. My personal favorite song is

"Whom God Destroys". It starts off typically, but before you know it the song becomes absolutely menacing and doesn't let up, at all. I like to imagine some sort of beast demolishing stuff when I listen to it, it's so cool. It's the same principle of the other songs, but I feel like this one is my favorite. It's very difficult to understand what the vocalist is saying throughout the entire album. Personally I don't really listen to the lyrics, but in this song you can hear the singer growling "the gods destroy!" When he says that, I just think to myself, fuck yeah.

For the first time in 9 tracks, there's a slow ambient track, "necropolis" which segways you directly into the path of the beastly, slow heaviness. It's more like whom the gods destroy, but the difference between this song and that one is you can't understand much of what the singers say. There's plenty of duel singing throughout this album. The tone of their singing is not musical, it's generally a yell or growl. The songs just rock. They rule. That is why this is one of my favorite death thrash metal albums. I will easily choose this album when I just feel like rocking out.

Protector never fails to keep each song fresh and yet each song is a bit derivative of the last. Nevertheless I feel that this album is not only exemplary of ballsy heaviness, but also a unique creation of protector. It deserves to be listened to.