Forger Emaciated - Hypercrisis
There are many leaders in the field of progressive death metal and this Polish band draw influences from a few surprising sources, whether by accident or not, you would be hard pressed to match a band like this to any progressive death metal movement as we know. From time to time I hear or at least I think I hear some emo whining vocal phrases over the top of raspy vocals, I instantly want this to go away, but then the random cascade of ideas keep you awake, you need to find their path, this is the albums challenge, but after rather a few spins, I unfortunately fail to see any flow or rather balance any consistency.
There are a lot of groove metal references here, ‘Into Reduction’ for example and this further unnerves the listener with some random pinch harmonics. When the riffs flow, this nails it, but when you combine all forces, you lose balance and judgement. ‘Homeless Run for the Glory’ has a good go at merging melancholy and aggression but fails to maintain a guitar tone to match the style, this sound is rather weak and polarised rather than being able to provide any warmth or feeling as what I think is intended. The release leaves me cold and feeling nothing what so ever. I can hear what they are trying to do, but the sound doesn’t match the expectation for this genre.
On the whole I find this Polish progressive death unfortunately a bit of a limp lettuce with confusing styles and tiresome random changes of stance thus ensuring you don’t quite get hooked and you can quite easily switch off if you want too, better production would help as there are clearly some decent ideas floating around this record.
There are a lot of groove metal references here, ‘Into Reduction’ for example and this further unnerves the listener with some random pinch harmonics. When the riffs flow, this nails it, but when you combine all forces, you lose balance and judgement. ‘Homeless Run for the Glory’ has a good go at merging melancholy and aggression but fails to maintain a guitar tone to match the style, this sound is rather weak and polarised rather than being able to provide any warmth or feeling as what I think is intended. The release leaves me cold and feeling nothing what so ever. I can hear what they are trying to do, but the sound doesn’t match the expectation for this genre.
On the whole I find this Polish progressive death unfortunately a bit of a limp lettuce with confusing styles and tiresome random changes of stance thus ensuring you don’t quite get hooked and you can quite easily switch off if you want too, better production would help as there are clearly some decent ideas floating around this record.
- Crystal Mystery
- Into Reduction
- Twin Evil
- Conversation With Unreal
- Homeless Run For The Glory
- The Thing
- Hypercrisis
Self released
Reviewer: twansibon
Jun 4, 2013
Jun 4, 2013
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