Sunday, June 15, 2025

Entry 1162 - Obkatiekat


Style: Brutal death metal

Primary Emotions/Themes: Instrumental death metal from an unlikely source 

Thoughts: I never thought I would have a vtuber album in my collection. Virtual youtubers are anime girls with a real life person animating them through motion capture software. Normally you can expect anime covers and jpop from their musical excursions. So when someone says that there is a death metal album coming out from a vtuber, you can understand why I was skeptical. But I'll be damned if Katie's album isn't brutal as all fuck.

After a short piano intro, we're introduced to the album proper: melodic leads over heavy seven string riffs and drums to match. Faded was way heavier than anything I would have ever expected with it's opening riffs, but I was floored when the melody slipped into the background and a proper death metal riff came out of my speakers, complete with blast beats. 

This is not deathcore, this is not melodeath, this is not nu metal... this is straight up death metal with heavy leanings into the brutal death metal realm with the monstrous breakdowns. The further the album progressed the more I found myself truly enjoying it. This wasn't something that was just out of shock value... no this is a great instrumental metal album. Shows that great music can come from unexpected places.

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