Style: Death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Kick ass death metal, nothing more, nothing less
Thoughts: Three snare shots followed by a massive riff, gruff vocals, and a muddy production that is so thick you have to use a machete to cut through it. This is old school death metal in the Finnish tradition.
Lie in Ruins are here to play death metal and take no prisoners. This is not clean or polished... no, this feels more like a one take recording and slap it into the master tapes. There are audible mistakes every now and then. The timing is not perfect, the riffs are slightly off sometimes, and the vocals crack every now and then... and I love it.
There is a sense of honesty and realism to this music. That's something I feel has been lost in recent years, especially with death metal. Everything is so clean, so polished... the music loses a bit of it's identity when this happens.
I can't tell you how much of a breath of fresh air an album like Floating in Timeless Streams is. It takes me back to the glory days of the genre. It reminds me of what the genre was before the spit shine. This is death metal dammit, it's not supposed to be clean. It's meant to be nasty and grimy. It's not supposed to sound human (or robotic these days)... it's meant to have character.
Floating in Timeless Streams is a giant fuck you to all things modern, and I'm here for it. The album has been on constant rotation for nearly a day at this point. It's got everything I want in the genre.
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