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…
Is it death metal? Questionable. But it is an exceptional progressive metal release nonetheless.