"The three songs which comprise its 23 minutes act as a virtual bridge between the thematic repetition of 2012’s Years Past Matter and Ygg Huur’s brisker, compact approach.

As such, Hyperion stands as a document of a band mid-transition, testing the extent of the newfound abilities gained from its members’ extracurricular activities in Gorguts (Marston), the resuscitated Behold the Arctopus (Marston again), death metal bass-drum duo Geryon (McMaster and Weinstein) and the evolving weirdness Mick Barr continues to unleash upon willing ears.

Previously content to craft assemblages of nothing but jagged edges, they sand away the instrumental excess on this three-track, sub-30-minute release, so that even a ten-minute cavalcade of French-braided guitar workouts called “Assuming Memory” feels economical.

represents a new highpoint in sheer density for guitarists Mick Barr and Colin Marston's six-stringed entanglement, but it doesn't happen at the expense of the effusive torrents of energy that make the band so life-affirming in the first place.

Greg Majewski of Invisible Oranges stated: "Hyperion stands as a document of a band mid-transition, testing the extent of the newfound abilities gained from its members' extracurricular activities... What Krallice have given us here is a clue to just what the hell they were up to as a collective in the three-year interim between LPs.