I'm a bit surprised how obscure this is for such a recent release...They--well, this Praetorian, at least--don't have a metal-archives page, and I could find very little info on the band online other than a couple of live vids. Not that it really matters, since the logo and album title alone were enough to get me to grab this. Semi-technical death metal of the "not bad enough to be awful, not good enough to be overly impressive" sort. Initially during the first song I though this would be more straightforward and '90s influenced death, but small technical flourishes and more modern style groovy riffs show up as the album progresses. The only other commentary I really have to make concerns the vocals...The singer's screechy secondary vocals come off as overexaggerated black metal vocals...There are many other bands guilty of doing them to much more ridiculous degrees, but I wish he had just used the typical death metal low vox everywhere.
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