Emeth - Reticulated

EXTREME BELGIAN SICKNESS -- kinda like roundboy Hercule Poirot after devouring one too many belgian waffles at an all you can eat breakfast buffet. Emeth is deathcore at its finest. Think Himsa meets Ion Dissonance. "Reticulated" is the much-anticipated follow-up to Emeth's first release, "Insidious" which came out in 2004.

The seventh track on "Reticulated" is titled "Order From Chaos," and that sums it up pretty much. Emeth creates chaos as effortlessly as if it were second-nature to them, yet they remain at all times very precise, very much in synch. They keep it tight. The third track "Karmic Impediment," for example, is like a vehicle that is slow to start, chugs along and keeps running flawlessly, then it slows down, it stops, it speeds up, all with machine-like precision. The next track, "Heteronomy Of The Will," picks up right where you left off, like a machine that runs when it wants to, how it wants to, perhaps throwing you off at at times, but definitely catching your attention and bending you to ITS will, taking you on a trip to a destination of ITS OWN CHOOSING!!!

Their sound consists of vocalist Tom Kimps' growling shrieks of schizophrenic wisdom deftly in time with the frantic rhythm section of drummer Tom Ales and bassist Kevin Schutters, and the ever-churning guitars of Matt Dupont and Peter Goemaere, all of this interspersed with occasional panicky guitar leads that remind one of a distress signal being wired via telegraph.

Other stand-out tunes on the release are "Predestined to Perservere" and the previously referred to "Order From Chaos," which come at the listener at a particularly furious pace and feature guitar leads woven in a Sumerian texture, ala Behemoth, and three tracks, "Fallacy Of Reason," "Concentric Diversions," and "Nescientia," were released earlier this year on a 10-song split CD with Eternal Bleeding.

Working with producer Daniel Bergstrand (Behemoth, Meshuggah, In Flames ...), and with guest vox and artwork by Aborted's 'da Svencho,' Emeth have put forth a spectacularly demented piece of sonic handiwork. As the band themselves put it, "A state of the art assault on your sanity!"

1. Eleven
2. Fallacy Of Reason
3. Karmic Impediment
4. Heteronomy Of The Will
5. Concentric Diversions
6. Predestined To Persevere
7. Order From Chaos
8. Synoptical Incoherence
9. Nescientia
Brutal Bands
Reviewer: mykke
Feb 26, 2009

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