Deconstructing Sequence – Access Code

Immersing the imagination in a journey which is at times as bewildering and exhausting as it is evocatively enlightening, Access Code, the new EP from UK metallers Deconstructing Sequence is a spellbinding challenge of an adventure. Comprising of two tracks which weave strains and toxins of everything from black and extreme to progressive and avant-garde metal, the release is a startling and breath-taking creative emprise. Easily accessible yet imposingly challenging, intricately woven yet consuming ears in a maelstrom of intensive rapacity, Access Code is a masterly confrontation which sets the Taunton based trio as one of, if not, the most exciting prospect in the UK metal scene.

The beginnings of Deconstructing Sequence came from the demise of black/death metal band Northwail, who had relative success with the albums Enigma and Cold Season in 2008 and 2011 respectively. From the ashes of that band, members Morph (guitar, vocals, sequencing and synthesis) and Tiberius (lead guitar, bass, vocals) decided to continue exploring progressive and avant-garde regions of extreme music with a new project, that being Deconstructing Sequence. Taking inspiration from the likes of Emperor, Nile, Arcturus, Dødheimsgard, and God is an Astronaut, the pair has proceeded to sculpt a uniqueness of sound which they describe as Extreme Progressive Art. Next the band enlisted drummer J. Nerexo, also of Shadows Land, and forged debut EP, Year One with their combined ingenuity and imagination which Access Code now pushes further whilst threatening to thrust the band to the fore of European metal. It is a proposition which brings an innovative and invigorating presence to numerous genres and a creative alchemy to ears.

The release opens with A Habitable World is Found, a track which according to the band “is a space-opera metaphor for search of a place on this world, a path that leads to completion of one’s self. It’s also a statement of our musical way, an opening act of chapter two of the odyssey.” Riffs make the first rigorous persuasion from within the track, their almost bitter textures startling and incendiary. Around them a sonic brew of invention warms its hands before descending on ears and imagination whilst those imposing riffs and a rhythmic battering led by equally caustic vocal growls intimidatingly spawn their specific furnace of attractive yet destructive bait. The twin vocal assault in its relentlessly varied delivery from the band founders is as gripping and unpredictable as the now in full flight tempest of sound and ideation. To be honest the track is as difficult to portray in words as it is unpredictable in sound and enterprise, additives of post punk and post rock endeavour just a few of the flames adding to the continuously intriguing and bewitching soundscape. As proven by the track alone, handful of listens still barely scratches the surface of the song’s depths and unrelenting ingenuity, ensuring each dive into its ravenous structures and agitated imagination of sound and skilled musicianship is a freshly rewarding experience.

Second track We Have The Access Code, is an immediate scrub of sonic acidity and rhythmic hostility which again is as seducing in its presence as it is venomously uncompromising. As its predecessor, the track is a merciless turbulence of sound and creative rabidity but whereas the first has a fluid and seamless evolution even in its most agitated and ferocious moments, the second song brings a bedlamic and discord fuelled frenzy which clashes and sparks against the senses and itself for another ridiculously compelling and scintillating proposition. Also employing a haunted and stark post punk essence within its melancholic shadows as well as electro spiced causticity, the song is equally unafraid to entwine a torrent of flavours and insatiably rabid creativity around its bordering on maniacal walls and charm.

Access Code is invention at its most damaging, arousing, and brilliantly animated best, extreme metal with a new intent and breath which sets Deconstructing Sequence not only apart from the rest but as a template for others to find inspiration in.

The self-released Access Code EP is available now @ http://dsprogart.bandcamp.com/

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10/10

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The Karma Party – Illumination EP

Last year The Karma Party unleashed one of the most thrilling confrontational propositions with the Dark Matters EP and now they return with another voraciously captivating and antagonistic incitement in the shape of the Illumination EP. Continuing the ferocious blend of punk, dub, and hardcore infused with plenty more invigorating flavours, which marked out their last release as an essential moment of 2013, the UK quintet has honed their ‘punk-step’ incitement into an even more inventive and evocative adventure. Without losing the snarl and bite of their politically charged lyrical intent, there is a new maturity and exploration within their songwriting and sound as evidenced on the new EP, an evolution which again results in an irresistible stirring up of thoughts and emotions.

Hailing from Blackpool, The Karma Party as mentioned made a potent and imposingly striking introduction with Dark Matters last year, surrounding and following it with a live presence which was as much a lure to the passions of fans as their release. Touring extensively with bands such as Random Hand, Dirty Revolution, and Jaya the Cat, the band in between EPs additionally recruited guitarist James Routh, also the bassist for Sonic Boom Six, into the line-up of vocalist Marc ‘Merc ‘ Walker, guitarist Liam Carroll, bassist Dave Cowley, and drummer Luke Hesketh. Now The Karma Party as expected go for the jugular with their new release, a commanding encounter which sets ears aflame, thoughts provoked, and passions stirred.

Opening track World War instantly proves the band has lost none of its antagonistic prowess musically and lyrically, emerging from distant scenery with electro enticing it erupts into a muscular imposing of jarring rhythms and jagged riffs entwined with sonic grooves. Shards of electronic expulsions litter the growing landscape of the song all the time whilst the vocals of Walker and the band prowl with provocative intent across the brooding drama. It is not as dramatic an entrance as you might surmise but a severely compelling one which soon adds extra seduction through the smooth croon of Walker before unleashing a sinew clad bounce of contagiousness for the chorus. There is an edge of King Prawn to the track once into its full stride as well as the insatiable revelry of Sonic Boom Six which maybe was inevitable with Routh producing the DIY release, but also a rawness which adds an extra lacing of causticity and attitude. The song continues to engage ears with shifting invention and thoughts with its firm yet not preachy lyrical narrative for a thoroughly captivating and potent start to the release.

It is a beginning soon taken to another level with the following Under Surveillance. A track which carries an air of Asian Dub Foundation from around their Punkara album, it opens with a delicious carnival like tease of sound which is soon stomping with contentious resourcefulness and devilry. It is a mesmeric introduction enhanced by the riveting throaty sound of Cowley’s bass. Into its keen punchy stride, the song stalks and inspires the imagination addictively, vocals pushing the honest narrative whilst guitars and keys create a web of infectious mischief and commanding intimidation which like the emerging invention simply ignites the senses. Easily one of the most imaginatively virulent persuasions to come along this year, the track steals the passions with ease.

Democracy offers its own belligerent sound and scathing vocal incitement next, the track as raw as it is adversarial. From a relatively underwhelming start, compared to its predecessors anyway with the production less sharp than elsewhere especially around the vocals, the track brews up a punk bred endeavour which soon takes its own specific slice of the emotions. Riffs and hooks almost taunt with their temptation whilst keys and melodies bring a toxicity which flourishes within the punk challenge and a subsequent dub- step enterprise. It is a strong and rigorously convincing track but one which feels pale against the previous tracks and the next up End of an Empire. With a ska seeded jangle of riffs and pungently probing swipes of rhythms aligned to thought challenging vocals, the track toys with band harmonies and floating melodies from the keys to impressive effect before building a climax which fires up the senses with agitated energy and sonic vivacity.

The EP is closed by its title track, arguably the most boldly inventive song on the encounter. Piano and vocals with reflective expression and melodic balladry open up the track before growing a bloom of energetic pop infused incitement which is as catchy as it is surprising. The track reminds of now demised band Dead Til Friday who themselves crafted a spellbinding melodic seduction of a song which startled from the band’s more expected direction. The Karma Party though is not a band to let the listener settle easily, turning the elegant poise and magnetic suasion of their song into a fury driven rabidity to match the attack of the lyrical side of the track. With metallic riffs and badgering beats crowding ears as forcibly as the vocals, the song is a dramatic treat which until its last breath persists in wrong footing and exciting its recipient.

It is a strong and potential loaded shift in the band’s sound, and one which probably takes a little longer to tightly grip than the songs which raged in first release. But with a striking boldness to their growing invention and that ridiculously captivating flair The Karma Party has for igniting everything from ears to feet, imagination to emotions, Illumination is another excuse to hail its creators as one of the UK’s seriously impressive and exciting bands.

Illumination EP is available now digitally @ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/id904057478 and physically @ http://thekarmaparty.bigcartel.com/

http://www.thekarmaparty.co.uk/

8.5/10

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Twilightfall – The Energy Of Soul

An experience which leaves you in two minds about its impact and triumph yet embeds a compelling enticement in its wake which ensures you want more of its presence and adventure, The Energy Of Soul, the debut album from Ukrainians Twilightfall is a riveting and torrential onslaught of sound and ideation which can best be described as a maelstrom. It is not a release which lit a fire in the passions yet its invention and persistently alluring twists bred a hunger in an appetite for Melodic Death Metal which cannot be ignored.

The band’s sound is bred from the same well of imagination and hostile seduction which the likes of In Flames and Children Of Bodom have spawned their provocations yet there is plenty more to the album. Potent essences of thrash and black metal, as well as progressive tendencies all add to the thick and almost at times bedlamic voracity of the songs within The Energy Of Soul. The album unleashes its intent and relentlessly shifting enterprise with almost disorientating urgency and appetite which brings those somewhat confused reactions to its weight and fiery offering but all the time it is laying imaginative bait which easily draws thoughts and emotions back to its enthralling depths.

Twilightfall is the creation of guitarist Wortherax, a veteran of Ukraine metal scene with his most notable roots going back to death metal band Suppuration who he joined in 1993, a band which went on to evolve into the more renowned Nokturnal Mortums. The lead guitarist on the latter’s band’s seminal albums Lunar Poetry and Twilightfall, as well as performing session work on prominent releases from bands like Munruthel and Khors, Wortherax formed Twilightfall in 20112, adding guitarist Aywar, bassist Freyr, and drummer Odalv to the project.

Recorded last year and now released via Svarga Music, The Energy Of Soul takes little time in unveiling imagination awakening endeavour and intent as the title track sets the album off in rigorous motion. Guitars immediately are busying ears with aggressive riffs and sonic expression, aided by some equally magnetic strokes of keys. There is a portentous air to the track even with the swirling melodies and their rich poetic narratives which consume the senses just as eagerly as the sinew sculpted rhythms. The raw vocal growl of Wortherax makes a predatory tempering to the fluid revelry of the song yet it too has an enticement which only coaxes ears and appetite into the song’s web. As subsequently with all tracks attention is needed to define some of the evolving twists, hooks and grooves are open but soon lost from aural gaze as the next flood of adventure persistently soaks thoughts. The slow slip into gentle melodic scenery later in the track allows a breather, though it also lacks the spark of the landscape before and after it. It is still an enticing lead into a terrific climax of sonic temptation, a sizzling end to what is a heavily impressing song.

   Spirit Of Ancestors comes next riding a lumbering wave of rhythmic predation and dramatically fuelled keys with guitars matching their picturesque colour. It is not a startling start as with its predecessor but one which still holds attention, especially with the caustic rub of riffs and the now confidently striding drum swipes. We mentioned thrash elements to the band’s sound previously, not the most obvious of flavours across the album to be honest, but certainly here make for a cunning and infectious lure to the initial charge of the song. The move into a reserved flight of melodic and emotive endeavour has the opposite effect in its drive. It is beautifully and impressively crafted turn with the musicianship glorious at times, but loses the essence which initially gave the encounter the potential to be another highly scintillating proposition. Nevertheless the song is a commanding figure within the release and again has plenty to encourage constant investigation just like A Mirror Of Dreams And Reality. The third song is a similar merger of elegant melodies and hostile energies with arguably a more muscular intent and rabidity than on the previous songs. There is a devilish swagger to the track but also a darker attitude which shadows the intimidating hooks and seductive grooves which flirt within the tempestuous body of the song. Again there are moments where things make a less than impacting suasion yet times where the track strikes with pure brilliance to ultimately trigger a greed for more. The song is simply a cyclone of intensity and ingenuity which never gives ears and thoughts time to settle leading to, as the album overall, an undecided conclusion but one you want plenty more of to reach a decision.

From a definite highlight, the album dips into a more gothic breath with Welcome To New Day, its keys a shadowed drenched beauty paced by the guttural rapacity of the vocals, and the more classically cultured Your Chance. Whereas the first of the pair launches into a bordering on maniacal gait and urgency within its evocative emprise, its successor is a solemnly orchestrated incitement with flourishing melodies and provocatively shadowed textures. Both tracks continue the inescapable lure of the album yet again leaves questions and decisions to be e contemplated.

The album closes with the impassioned and dark breathed Go A Long Way To Each, its keys and melodies fuelled by an emotional cloud of again gothic sombre, and lastly the rabid ferocity and incendiary adventure of Storm, a track which lives up to its name in sound and creative turbulence as it brings another major moment for the release. The Energy of Soul is an album which you cannot pass by without finding its seeds and qualities have left a lingering tempting behind. Impressing more and more with each play whilst still not quite overturning any reservations it inspired early on, the album is a thoroughly captivating and enjoyable encounter from Twilightfall, a band impossible not to spawn a potent appetite for.

The Energy of Soul is available via Svarga Music now @ http://www.svarga.eu/en/webshop#!/~/product/category=3027770&id=37705371

http://www.svarga.eu/en/twilightfall

8/10

RingMaster 12/08/2014

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