God bless demos! They’re short!
Well, I had no clue what I signed for when I accepted to review
Argus Panoptes’
Demo 2011. I read “Progressive
Death Metal from Canada” and thought: “sure, I can deal with this; it’ll probably sound like
Mitochondrion”.
I was wrong.
Argus Panoptes plays… some kind of
Death Metal. At least I knew it was
Death Metal or something close to it because of the singer’s growls. Besides this one “peculiar” element, the rest is just pure madness. The drums seem to do only that kind of syncopated “tick, tick, tick, tick” and feel more like a drum machine with the same programming on each and every song. The previously mentioned growls are ok, but nothing really outstanding and they have no variety at all… The guitars? I almost can’t tell if there’s any other than some leads or what sounds like
Ministry samples.
And why is that, would you ask?
Because the whole freaking thing (well, it's only three songs, thank
God!) is plagued by overwhelming keys.
And not just any keys: good ole vintage casio keys which would make
The Gathering's Always sound like Giuseppe Verdi. Of course,
Argus Panoptes’ keyboardist knows how to play. I'll grant him that. But maybe it’s because the rest of the band can’t play that they chose to put the keys in such an invasive fashion. By comparison,
Nocturnus sounds raw and crude like fucking
Beherit!
I played this demo three times and won’t play it any longer. This is exhausting music, even more so than
Portal or the aforementioned
Mitochondrion. Industrial Prog Cheesy Epileptic
Death Metal… This is more than I can take though usually I like the “weirder” things. Not this time. For the band’s credit, I’d say there’s an awful lot of progression and if they could balance this whole thing, it might even be interesting but at this stage, it’s not worth contacting webzines or labels.
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