I was expecting an exciting competition for tech-death supremacy to emerge towards the end of the year, as the release date to “Finitude” grew closer. What I didn’t expect, however, was that this album was going to shatter the bar and go play in a league of its own.
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This is not only their best album yet, but certainly one of the best releases of 2023, and any fan of progressive music ought to check it out!
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As a prog fan, I always like to hear new things and get some surprise factor, but in Blackbriar’s case, the formula hasn’t yet become redundant and I’m perfectly fine with another album following this recipe.
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On top of the fact that it is excellently put together as a modern death metal album, “Numen” might also be one of the most diverse and multi-faceted extreme metal releases I’ve come across!
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Despite having sat through a bunch of technical death metal albums since the beginning of this year, I can easily say that Tegmentum dropped the most brutal album of 2023 so far. And it will be a very difficult one to top.
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As soon as I had sat through my first audition of the album, I knew it was gonna become a tech-death favourite.
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“First Ascent” is an extraordinary display of clever composition, diverse technical abilities and ingenious combinations that stands as a unique voice in the progressive death metal scene!
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Distention does a great job of bringing together the old and the new, and I can totally see it as a gateway for the older generations of metalheads to familiarize themselves with the new wave of tech-death, or vice-versa.
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With such an accessible surface aesthetic as well as so much substance in the artistic content, I wouldn’t be surprised if more people soon dove into the world of Lyrre!
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Despite only 5 tracks summing less than 40 minutes of run-time, “Nemesis” comes across as a convincing progressive metal effort that takes the listener on a complex emotional journey.
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Structural’s sophomore effort wastes no time and takes no prisoners. It is a relentless display of punchy and creative death metal with just enough variety to turn their craft into a maelstrom of sophisticated badassery!
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Arkona remain unmatched in their craft of the dark arts, and their latest offering is a true feast of misanthropic majesty.
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The album sounds like a ritual that hooks you and then engulfs you entirely as if it taps into something primal and fundamental to life.
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‘Start From Nothing’ is a striking and engaging record, and especially for a debut, I find it truly remarkable.
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With “Woven into Ashes” we see Vintersea reaching for the stars in full-blown epicness.
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Flub continues to deliver high-quality melodic tech-death with a sound unique enough to avoid becoming a cliché.
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Demon King’s debut was an instant dose of satisfaction for me. And after sitting through a couple of streams of “Vesania”, the only thought process that I can expect went behind this one is “Let’s do it again… but MORE”.
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Despite the full release being only 17 minutes in length, it is a well put together work of art that can easily sink you into its atmosphere and make all your worries drain away.
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This album manages to build some massive momentum and tons of energy as well as compositional and expressive variety!
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This is the most extreme album that Chaos Over Cosmos has ever released.
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