YMMV / Pestilence

• Contested Sequel: Spheres to some extent for its spacey jazz sound, much more blatantly their post-reunion material: does it prove the band still has what it takes, or is it all a shameless cashgrab? Though Hadeon and Exitivm have received slightly better reception than their other post-reunion material, even they still tend to be vary polarizing.
• Even Better Sequel: Generally the opinion on Consuming Impulse: though Malleus Maleficarum is a great death/thrash album, Impulse is widely regarded as one of the finest albums ever in the death metal genre thanks to its twisted, tortured sound.
• First Installment Wins: The band are generally best regarded before their break-up, and in particular when they had original vocalist Martin van Drunen, enough so that many old-school fans jumped ship to Asphyx when he left. Most fans will readily praise Malleus Maleficarum and Consuming Impulse, usually Testimony of the Ancients as well and then stop at Spheres, if even that. The post-reunion material is...controversial, to say the least.