In nature, populations improve when a small group breaks away, develops new traits, and then is partially or completely absorbed by the original group, spreading those beneficial traits to the whole group. Heavy metal is now absorbing death metal and black metal through power metal.

Acerus, however, takes a more traditional metal approach and blends elements of death metal and technical death metal into that, while keeping the song format and intensity of NWOBHM-era heavy metal intact. The band released its third full-length, The Tertiary Rite, on May 15, 2020.

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