Style: technical death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: technology, a post-human civilization
Thoughts: Christ almighty, what a death metal album.
I have heard a lot of death metal, hell I've heard a lot of extreme metal in general. Sometimes I feel like I've heard too much, but then an album like this comes along and reminds me that, yes, there is stuff that still gets the blood pumping. Puts life in the zombified corpse of death metal. Gives it some meaning again.
Labyrinth Constellation is death metal, but it is also so much more. Sure there are tons of moments that sound like pure Suffocation worship. There's even some moments that border on slam/brutal death metal, especially with Will's vocals being as deep as they are. Again though, there is so much more.
There are brief moments of melody, just a few notes here or there. A small melody out of no where that leaves as quickly as it arrived. A small nibble of normality for my brain to hold on to in the middle of all the brutality.
There are brief moments of overwhelming atmosphere and grace scattered throughout the album. Small moments in time where the brutality slowly eases back and allows the music to swell to this incredible crescendo that has the presence of a tidal wave about to crash into a shore: undeniable.
These small moments of spontaneous melody and atmosphere are all over the album. They are what gives the album life. A small bastion of normalcy in the midst of the brutality that is well executed death metal. It's enough to elevate what would already be a good album into the realms of the elite.
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