The Encounter seems to be an apt name for this album, seeing as this blend of jazz and almost death/tech style metal does seem to come from its own little planet outside of the rest of the scene.
This is the kind of album that just sort of rips out your throat, shows it to you, and says “isn’t this gnarly as hell?”.
GET IN GET OUT GET IN GET OUT GET IN GET OUT GET IN GET OUT
Some parts can make you say “that’s it?”, yet the keyboards and overall flow have a way of tying things together.
Detailed rhythms highlighting shreddy, intense crescendos with keyboard acrobatics for energy in standard-but-not-standard prog metal.
Yet another new band takes a crack at the Opeth school of prog. Does this one knock it out of the Blackwater Park? Let’s find out!
Blackened Death with some cool techy and thrashy elements thrown in. Also one member only plays guitar solos.