Just before the summer, I was just looking around for new albums to fill my library. Before downloading the legal MP3 version of the album, I never heard about this band but, looking to the buzz I read around the internet, it seemed the mp3 album should be from a great debuting band. Just giving it a try.
The opening track is an instrumental song with doomy elements combined with tight rhythms, reminding me of
Gojira doing
Carcass. Some awesome overdubs of
Sepultura included.
From song two till eight, the death metal and aggressive thrash metal release the beast in me. Melodic death metal is their main influence but they add absolutely their own elements to it. Don't think this is another At the
Gates or
In Flames follower, hell no ! They do it in a convincing, determined manner with old school and modern hooks. You could even say this is the melodic version of
Aborted. A little bit slower but even more venomous.
Final Bastion for example starts with intense drumming barrage propels the twin guitars and dual scream/growl vocal approach (actually throughout each track), never stopping for a breath.
On "Philosophers of doom", the more doomy elements of old
Paradise Lost and great
The Absence alike sphere come above water.
God Dethroned singer/guitarist Henri Sattler added his voice on this song. A great combination with singer "Smithereens". Outstanding.
"
Mental Surgery" leaves you feeling like you've been left in a concrete mixer overnight. Although the album has only eight songs, each of them encase strong structures, melodies and a mountainous amount of insanity that will leave you temporarily blind..
Great debut which is still on top of my playlist. Another great metal band of the land of
Gorefest, Aphyx,
Textures,
Legion of the Damned and
God Dethroned..
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