Style: Orchestral death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: The perfection of death metal fused with a full orchestra
Thoughts: Septic Flesh have had one of the most fascinating discographies to follow. Starting as atmospheric death metal and changing frequently to some experimental form of of the genre before creating a pop death metal album in Revolution DNA only to create a monster of an album in Sumarian Deamons immediately thereafter.
After that they broke up. I though that we had heard the last of them, until out of nowhere we got Communion. A decent but lacking comeback album compared to Sumarian Deamons. The follow up to that however, The Great Mass showed what the band was truly capable of in what seemed to be their new style: orchestral death metal.
What. An. Album. this is. Holy shit. Not every song is incredible, but when the band is firing on all cylinders here, there is literally nothing that I can think of that is better. The title track is one of my favorite songs in any genre. Five Pointed Star utilizes violins in a way that I have not yet heard in other forms of music. Apocalypse matches the title tracks intensity note for note. The whole album is immense.
This is the last album that Septic Flesh put out that I truly enjoy. The follow ups to this try to relive it's glory without getting anywhere near the intensity or the passion shown here. I do wish that the band would get out of this stagnation that they are in, but even if they never do we still got one top tier album out of it.
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