EMETH - AETHYR

November 18, 2014, 9 years ago

(Xtreem Music)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 7.5

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EMETH - AETHYR

Extreme technical death metal has become a hard sell. It's skittered and scattered so far up its own butt that it's just plain old not fun to listen to much of the time. So, man, it rules when a band like Belgium's Emeth comes along here on their fourth album and just shreds it relatively simple, but still skilled and intense and with tons of confidence, kinda splitting it even between the latest Origin and about nine thousand tech-death albums you listened to last year and forgot ever existed. But here it's deceptively tech: a tune like "Eidolons Of Ash" has all the stop-on-a-dime twists and turns and guitar squealies you'd expect from the genre, but, really, it's plowing ahead pretty simple and no-frills. There's something Willowtip-ian and futuristic in the delivery and production, even if the tunes themselves are more pummel-ya brutal-DM Suffocation than annihilate-ya tech-DM Wormed. I even feel like I might remember some of these songs when I'm back in reality and not sitting here with this cranked on my headphones, which is saying a lot. Good stuff indeed, with the power of brutal death and the skill of tech death and a bit of the songwriting of, you know, music.



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