HORRENDOUS Anareta LP progressive death metal tribulation edge of sanity atheist

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HORRENDOUS Anareta LP

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      Now available on vinyl.
      One of the few real heirs to the sort of magisterial and melodic prog-tinged death metal that the mighty Edge Of Sanity brought us in the early 90s, Horrendous are back with their latest album of vertebrae-damaging heaviosity, Anareta, now available on both CD and vinyl. I caught on to these guys with their mucho-hyped and critically acclaimed sophomore album Ecdysis, and enjoyed the hell out of that album's brand of crushing, mid-paced death metal that had just the right balance between old-school ugliness and melodic complexity. With Anareta, these guys have maintained that same level of quality, belting out eight new tracks of highly sophisticated heaviness, each one combining technically impressive riffage, huge soaring hooks, and interesting rhythmic arrangements and occasional odd time signatures that keep it compelling without falling into extraneous wankery.
      In fact, that ability to keep their songwriting lean is one of their greatest strengths. Even when they sprawl out for seven minutes or more, the music on Anareta doesn't feel indulgent in the least. Songs like "Ozymandias" and "Polaris" offer an intricately laid-out assault of blazing thrash and more elegiac, doom-laden moments, but as the song moves through a tapestry of shifting riffs and tempos, there's always a spellbinding lead melody that ties it all together. They've been doing that since their debut, but here that melodic sensibility is even more sharply honed, echoing with the feel of classic Swedish death metal without sounding referential. And their proggier moments are always tempered by the toughness of the riffs; ferociously straight-forward at times, dizzyingly complex at others, these songs teem with vicious grooves and breakneck tempo changes, bursts of almost mathy angularity, smatterings of solemn acoustic guitar, these elements woven thoughtfully through those crushing thrash riffs and punishing mid-tempo hooks. We get more of that textural, fluid bass playing that I really dug on their previous record, as well; it doesn't quite get into full-on fusion mode, but it's close, brining an expressiveness that definitely adds another distinct layer to their music. The singer's horrific strep-throat vocals again offer a stark contrast to Horrendous's bright ascendant melodies, with a sneering, scathing edge that echoes Asphyx's Martin van Drunen and injects the one true element of monstrous ugliness into the music. And there are some almost shockingly beautiful moments on Anareta, like the second half of "Acolytes" that finds the band's thrashing death metal suddenly blossoming into a blast of poignant, almost shoegazey major-key heaviness. It's all immensely catchy, much more so than any other recent death metal alum I can think of, and it's really little wonder that these guys have blown up in the manner that they have. Anareta is yet another excellent album from the band, straddling the line between the monstrous and the wondrous, and a definite high point in the field of contemporary progressive death metal.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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