[3] It was released in 1998 by Minus and Novamute Records,[4] with the 11:40 minute title track widely considered both the album's peak and one of Hawtin's best works.

Most tracks were recorded live to 2-track DAT in a single take and edited down to album length.

Everything was cross‑modulating everything else.”[5] The New York Times wrote: "The thumps and the pinglike sound of searching radar create a mood in Consumed that is oceanic and hypnotic yet hardly New Age: the tension is too thick.

Club called the album "a career highlight that stripped techno to a glacial pulse and the barren sounds of a boundless alien wasteland.

[12] All tracks are written by Richie HawtinCredits adapted from liner notes.