Rings of Saturn - Lugal Ki En
I haven't spent a lot of time listening to deathcore so this was pretty unusual territory for me - before this the only deathcore band I've listened to more than twice was The Red Chord. The drums do sound machine like but it seems this is actual live live playing by Aaron Kitcher - there are youtube clips of this dude playing 320bpm double pedals. The guitars I liked quite a bit - you could call it wankery but I'm a guitar wanker so that doesn't bother me as long as it's creative, and there's plenty of creativity here. Some of the short bursts of high ptitched dissonant riffing reminded me of video game music, and buried in that dissonance is some interesting thematic development. The main downside is that I'm so used to the mid range grunt of other metal sub genres I can't help but miss it, however I could get used to this - I'll definitely keep this in my library and give it a few more spins.
7.5/10
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