Review: Exanimis – Marionnettiste
An incredibly strong orchestral death metal album with a brainy progressive edge.
An incredibly strong orchestral death metal album with a brainy progressive edge.
Impressive fretboard wizardry, gnarly snarls, blistering synths, and lyrics detailing fictional intergalactic histories… what’s not to love? This is unique, nerdy, progressive death metal goodness.
Impeccably written discordant, atonal chaos: impenetrable, oppressive, and heckin’ brilliant.
Literally drifting through space, watching the world burn, awaiting your demise. One can either seek bliss or turn to madness.
A Gojira esque post metal./sludge album. which may rely a bit too heavily on the slamming riffs.
When an absurd variety of metal influences form a progressive metal soup, one must ask: do too many subgenres spoil the broth?
Aggressive, oppressive, evil, and avant-garde. What more do you want?
Descend may be the band that us Opeth fans have been looking for all these years. This is an album that is truly remarkable. A faithful continuation of Opeth’s formula all while keeping updated with the meta of twenty years of progressive death metal.
Style: Blackened Death Metal (harsh vocals)Review by: CallumCountry: US-WARelease date: 14 February, 2022 NOTE: This album was originally included in the “Albums We Missed in 2020” Issue of The Progressive Subway It always boggles my mind when a band’s debut album sounds as polished as a seasoned veteran’s, and even Read more…