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A major obstacle on the way there is the growled vocals, which describe mythical doomsday scenarios. Generally, I don't understand why, especially in tech-savvy metal, there is often virtuoso instrumentation but not skilled singing, instead trying to sound like a monster. Hello, is the Gruffalo coming? My knees are shaking. For some bands, it fits the music, but even then there are quality gradations: Here it just comes off as ridiculous. In my mind's eye, a misshapen mutant appears, proclaiming its endless torment. I can't take that seriously. Nor the Latin text inserts. Si tacuisses, aesteticus mansisses, or something like that.
I have the feeling that, from the band's side, it is also an experiment. That's positive, even if I can't find anything appealing in the music. When I think about how surprisingly CELTIC FROST's anti-disco metal outlier once burrowed its way into my brain with its sickly vocal attempts, then experiments must also be allowed. However, my conclusion would now be to try it differently, to extract the few interesting passages with dense sounds from this dreary and inflated framework and to make songs under nine minutes long. Seriously.
