Realm of death metal has already been out-bounded in the early part of this decade, as a resultant of some grueling modern death albums by few bands, which have convincingly shackled away from the grid. Major expansion transporters being-Nile, Hate eternal and Cryptopsy! Although, my primary concern here is to review latest Decapitated album, then why the hell am I narrating stories about the legendary status of the above mentioned bands? Simple-The band I am reviewing deserves a treatment in the big league.
‘Decapitated’ hailing from Poland {known for producing Vader,Yaltering and Lux occulta (Vogg (G) & Mratin’s (B) band)} has run strength to strength with each passing record. Latest work ‘Organic Hallucinosis’ is consistently built UP over noted works ‘Winds of creation’, ‘Nihility’ and ‘The Negation’. I’ll say music hasn’t progressed too much, but whatever little could be fiddled, has been done. Signature elements remain intact and there’s least deflection musically amid absence of ex-vocalist Saurion, new filler is an equally strong, deep, thirsty growler.Therefore, on- target in this department. For those of you who have heard them before, this album is going to eat you up, rapidly. Whereas, first time decapitated listeners may get consumed slowly, by sliding-slipping progression which holds uniqueness under those chunky riffs. Album opener ‘A poem from an old prison man’is furious, groove slick start, that dies around 3minute,and then lashes those destructive chords in final 1 and a half minutes.(this is probably what Vader need learn from these younger fellow country men, i.e. to create such surprising sections!). ‘Day 69’is up next, drummer ‘Vitek’ fires those bullets from the pedals, controlling the hold, in comes a downward thunderstorm & evil leads start flowing around.Moreover, right after this, is a drum solo spanning some 20 seconds (a trailer to what could have been a Pete Sandoval styled solo on ‘Heretic’), a reversing guitar pattern falls back to place from where the song began. This is immaculate stuff, extremely hard to play and fasten, well executed! ‘Revelation of existence’ continues the head rolling trip, slower, drills into your cerebellum straight away, all this courtesy crawling one-dimensional overlapping guitars in the intermediate. Track 4 ‘Post (-) organic’ is ultra technical, highlights being guitar down hill, abrupt high rise climbs through alternating guitars meshing eventually and stretched forward, backwards.. Fairly gymnastic in approach, it’s not only tricky to play, but to comprehend.
By the time 4th song finishes these weird constructions, awkward leads ,off beat timings, start reminding me about ‘Meshuggah’.And I think its pleasantly come off age, even if it happened via a slight Meshuggah approach Everything sounds very natural, try playing ‘Nihility’, ‘The Negation’ and current record one after the other. Moving ahead ‘Visual delusion’ runs for the longest time among all songs, infectious, delivered through congruent axes, and those 10 seconds prior to last minute exude darkness as an ‘immolation’ intro,AAH!refreshingly chilling! Feel agony of your face being crushed under those hammering guitars during conclusive section of this song. A little straight forward on ‘Flash-B (L)-ack’band gets into ‘corpse’ mode, brutal and suffocating, best keywords to describe this one. Final track ‘Invisible control’ has evident ‘Deicide’ touch through leads, a fantastic ending to this metaloaf of a song, verses being sung are equidistant keeping the vibe and effect intact, they did languish in this context on rest of the tracks, as they lost a bit of grip in the absence of vocals,occasionally.
A simpler way to describe all the glib talk above would be, jump for ‘Decapitated’ over themselves, complaint being-slightly too technical! OK OK pick it up!