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Technicality is not dead!
Swelling Repulsion is a band from Colorado and they reach their sophomore album in Fatally Misguided, a sample on how the brutality and technicality can walk side by side.
Vanquish, the opener, abounds with weird but rad time signatures, angular riffs, and drumming from hell, with a dissonant vibe that will entertain those who love this kind of sound, while in the subsequent track Basking In Fumes Of Failure, the dementia of juxtaposing instruments and continuing changes of tempo in a flow of unstoppable death metal dexterity, destroys the listener who try to get it in a few spins: it is a little more complicated than that!
The influx of convoluted riffs and whatnot, indeed, is the central thing on this album, with a modern take on the style, and even if it’s not for any ear and it is (as aforementioned) difficult to grasp, it’s impossible to not note (inside this logic) the cohesive factor of the album, as presented in tracks such as Sacred Doom and Cesspool of Dismembered Memory. Both tracks present a vortex of determinate proficiency not heard everyday inside the style.
Intricacy and lunatic attacks are what the track called Failure has to offer, putting the listener more and more into the quicksand music they propose, although some patterns can be clearly identified in this number as well as in the long Sullen Light of Expired Stars that kind of saturates the fan in a infinite whirlpool of instrumental madness.
All in all, Fatally Misguided by Swelling Repulsion, although not an easy listening, will find its way through the path of fans of serpentine death metal.
Fatally Misguided is out now on Transcending Obscurity Records.
Rating: 8/10
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