Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. On their 1997 debut album Cult of the Initiated, Pessimist unleashed their brutality onto the international metal scene for the first time. The nascent band's effort displayed all the traits - the violent riffing, guttural vocal attack, and relentless pacing - that would become their calling card for the coming decades. This long out-of-print shrine of brutal American death metal is available once again on the eve of the album's twenty-second anniversary, replete with two bonus tracks, and on wax for the first-time ever.