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Empires of Worlds

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Biomechanical, besides having one of the best metal band names ever, is one of the best new metal releases I have heard in years. Adequately describing the immense wall of sound and fury this band creates is hard to do....

Full of bizarre, unnerving sound effects and background noise, oddly utilized keyboards and symphonic elements (!), vicious death metal vocals juxtaposed with absolutely piercing shriek-like clean vocals that make Geddy Lee sound like a jazz-lounge singer, and a relentless twin-guitar attack that definately lives up to the images conjured by the band's name, this is one brutal, creative, and progressive-tinged metal release that has to be heard to be believed. I especially love the unbelievably hard and fast nonstop guitar riffing and hyper, chaotic solos. Very, very cool and intense. I am looking forward to this band's next release!

It is not often my jaw drops when I hear a new album. Disillusion's "Back to Times of Splendor" stunned me for a bit, same with Kamelot's "The Black Halo". But after the 50ish second intro of "The Empires of The Worlds" I was fumbling for my player's volume control just so I could hear every part of the huge wall of sound that hits you head on. From there on out you get an album that sounds something like if Rob Halford (Judas Priest, for all you ignorant folks) was injected with speed and told to make an album that takes the best parts of metal for the last 15 years and cram them into one album.

So that is what you get. From the At The Gates (except a lot faster) style of melodic death metal on Truth Denied to the instrument jackhammering on Assaulter to the ballady Long Time Dead to the eccentric The Empires of the Worlds you get it all. While the album is primarily awesome thrash metal, it has tones of other styles crammed into it as well. I could go on for ages just describing each song since they all have their own unique sound - but I'll just let you experience that yourself since nothing I could write could do the songs justice.

This album just blew me away from start to finish. It's only failings are that in a few points some people may find it simply over the top mind blowing, and in a few points their movie-style orchestrations seem kind of strange.

Similar to: Judas Priest, Pantera, Strapping Young Lad, Fear Factory, Mike Patton's work, Devin Townsend, Nevermore. But it more a fusion of all these bands than any one of them at a time.