In 1998, the band released their third studio album "Victims of this Fallen World", (Iacono's first as vocalist) which has been noted as incorporating a more groove-oriented and melodic musical style of death metal. The following album "The Prophecy (Stigmata of the Immaculate)" released in 2000 consolidated this style, lessening the chaotic nature of their work thus far and incorporating greater influences from thrash metal. The band's 2001 album "" added further melody to the band's approach to death metal and the band continued to gain attention and positive critical reception. In the following year, the band released "Shadows & Dust", which has been viewed by critics as one of the band's most successful releases because of the overwhelmingly positive reception the band received and the increase in sales compared to the band's prior releases, being the first album to chart in countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and featured one of the band's most recognisable tracks: "In Shadows & Dust".