Style: Technical death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: A thirty minute trip into madness
Thoughts: What if Gorguts - the band that has one of the craziest discographies in all of metal - decided to make a thirty three minute long song? Well wonder no more, Pleiades' Dust is exactly that.
As one may expect from a band like Gorguts, this album is ambitious... incredibly so. It's not just a bunch of riffs thrown together, it's a full blown classical piece written in the death metal genre. It flows from movement to movement like little else can - especially in the metal genre.
There are extended periods of ambience as well as violence. The way that these two opposing forces balance during the entirety of the album is a fascinating thing to observe on it's own merit. The fact that they are intertwined into a collection of fantastic riffs and moods is all the better.
Compared to the chaos that Gorguts has done in their past, Pleiades' Dust is downright tame in terms of the riffs used. There are multiple sections where full on melodic portions are heard. This is intermixed with the more typical anti-music riffing that Luc and company have created over time... albeit much more subdued that anything found on Obscura or From Wisdom to Hate.
This is easily one of the best releases that the band has put out. I find it to be a much better comeback than the lackluster Colored Sands. This one lives up to the legacy of the classic albums while still growing the bands sound in ways that were unexplored before this. The ambient sections in particular are a highlight for me as silence is as big of an instrument as the guitars are during portions of the composition.
Masterpiece? No not quite, but it is something that I will come back to more frequently than an album like Obscura. That alone is worth something.
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