lista zespołów Melodic Death Enema Call It Anything

The Japanese are known to add in their own elements of madness into any music that they play, making bands that come out from that country sounding like no other. From black metal (Endless Dismal Moan) to thrash metal (Gargoyle), weird and elements that were once though impossible to include are thrown around comfortably by the Japanese. Enema/Immortal Sense are no different, proving that nothing's too difficult for the Japanese.

(To prevent confusion, I'll use Enema from here on. Immortal Sense is the name used by the band internationally.)

Before listening to Call It Anything, the band's debut full length album, I was thinking of how impossible it would be to include weird elements into a genre such as melodic death metal, but Enema simply displays their ability to do so. The album's opener, ?????? is an epic 9 minute track, with an acoustic guitar plucking traditional Japanese sounding notes before breaking into the music. Throughout the song, the band threatens to break out into a breakdown, yet somehow end up constantly averting that from happening, certainly a plus point for me.

But this track is not what Enema is complete capable of, as following tracks display their ability to throw in all kinds of elements from J-rock to power metal into their music. The title track, Immortal Sense is a flurry of weird time signatures, yet these Japs are able to keep their timing, hitting every note and riff in complete cohesion. Also, the guitar solo on Self Projection sound as if it could fit into a Sonata Arctica song well. The sappy guitar solo on Dual is emotional (another one of those things that only the Japanese seem capable of doing), contrasted by the sick vocals of Katsuya, alternating between a deep growl and a high pitch one.

The production is also considerably raw at the treble range for a melodic death metal record, yet this adds to the entire experience of the music. The heavily distorted bass that constantly lurks into background comes into the spotlight especially on tracks such as ?????, yet isn't drowned out at all throughout the album, usually taking a melodic role behind the chaos by the rest of the instrumental section.

What does this album sound like? Overall it sounds like neo-classical power metal guitarists playing in a melodic death metal band. I have constantly put this album on hold due to the metalcore tag, but listening to this album has completely made me change my mind about Enema.