![]() Prog metal/tech death, you name it and Inanimate Existence threw it into the mix on their 4th full length, Underneath A Melting Sky! Inanimate Existence – Underneath A Melting Sky With flawless performances throughout, Hideous Divinity solidified their place at the forefront of the brutal/tech death scene amidst a whirlwind of ultra-harsh vocals, insane drumming and no end of innovative riffing.ĭevastating brutality finessed to the nth degree! These Italians delivered big on an album that was 3 years in the making, and their supreme talent and obsessive attention to detail resulted in 50 mins of aural violence that promised much….yet bestowed so much more than was expected. Somehow, with Adveniens, Hideous Divinity managed to improve on 2014’s Cobra Verde and served up an album that even the most trepidatious tech death fan could fall in love with! Fortunately then, Axis Mundi proved to be a masterclass, home to the kind of masterful compositions and mind-blowing performances that makes tech death so thrilling when delivered with this much passion, fury and forthright conviction.Ģ017 was a year in which fans found themselves drowning in tech death releases but with Axis Mundi, Decrepit Birth still managed to burst through to the surface….and we expected nothing less! Making us wait a ridiculous seven years for Decrepit Birth‘s new album marks these Santa Cruza’s out as very naughty boys but damn, did they deliver the goods on Axis Mundi!ĭecrepit Birth needn’t apologise for their lethargy though, they’ve been an integral part of the tech death scene for so long now that they’ve nothing inherently to prove. Oh no, this meaty fucker actually set sail and its destination was tech death heaven! With Relentless Mutation, Archspire consistently impressed while still delivering that most important aspect….actual songs! That’s right, this wasn’t no showboat that looked pretty while hiding its hollow core. This kind of technical death metal has long since needed to conform to generic death metal rules – technical death metal is meant to challenge and bewilder – but, fortunately, there was much more to Archspire than just dazzling complexity. Mastered by Colin Marston of Gorguts, this debut full length by Chaos Motion is reminiscent of their infamous ‘Obscura’ album and other notorious ones by bands like Portal, Origin, Wormed, (early) Cephalic Carnage and even Wicked Innocence (circa ‘Omnipotence’).Technical death metal was in very rude health in 2017 and these modern classics of the genre are already turning 5 years old….Ĭanada’s Archspire relentlessly hammered away with mind-blowing proficiency and technical audacity on Relentless Mutation, their 3rd album in 7 years. Each listen will reward them with something new, something hitherto unnoticed. This is one ugly, mysterious, gut-wrenching album that will befuddle listeners time and again, and they will keep coming back to it to learn some more. At just over 40 minutes, this will seem like an eternity to get through – and that can only be a compliment because there’s just so much happening at all times. You will have to take effort to try and decipher the mind-boggling riffs and myriad patterns that this strange, otherworldly album is packed with. ![]() There’s nothing immediately catchy or memorable here. There needed to be something actually challenging that made us sit up and take notice, and this is it. There’s little conformity to the style as we know it and it’s all for the better. Record Label – Transcending Obscurity Recordsįor fans of – Wormed, Portal, (early) Cephalic Carnage), Gorguts circa ‘Obscura’, Wicked Innocence, CerebrumĬhaos Motion are turning the technical death metal genre inside out. Chaos Motion (France) – Psychological Spasms Cacophony (October 18th, 2019)
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