Ethereal Collapse are a melodic death
metal band that hail from Pennsylvania, and I’m glad to say that they
are actually melodic death, not the American version which is almost
always metalcore-y. There is not a single breakdown to be found on this
EP, which is a rather refreshing thing in these ‘chug chug slam’ days.
‘Categories’ is a concept EP, just over 16mins long, dealing with
different branches of philosophy. It’s a tight, well written and well
played EP, full of soaring melodies and plenty of head bang thrashing
moments. ‘Category II: Discovering the
Absolute’ has a wonderfully
melodic solo halfway through, and opening track ‘Category I: Slave to
the Empirical’ has some of the same excellent moments. Vocally the band
stick with a traditional melodeath approach, there’s not too much
variety in it, but it is quite refreshing for there not to be clean
vocal choruses in this genre, so that is a plus. I love the riff that
opens the last track, ‘Category III:
Architect’; its a great section of
arpeggio riffing that then breaks into a nice heavy
Soilwork-esque riff.
I notice that these guys are unsigned on their
Metal-Archives.com
profile, which I think is a damn shame. The EP shows more than enough
promise to earn them a label. They’re one of the better melodeath bands
I’ve heard from the USA. They may take a huge amount of influence from
the Scandinavian scene (Gothenburg in particular, but there’s
definitely some Bodom/
Kalmah in there too), but this EP shows that they
have the ability to forge their own identity if given the chance. Now
hopefully they can get signed and bring their melodic metal to the
masses. We Europeans would lap it up, that’s a promise.
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