ALGORYTHM

"Algorythm" is the third full-length studio album by Canadian, Quebec based technical/progressive death metal act Beyond Creation. The album was released through Season of Mist in October 2018. It´s the successor to "Earthborn Evolution" from 2014. There´s been one lineup change since the release of "Earthborn Evolution" as bassist Dominic Lapointe has left and has been replaced by Hugo Doyon-Karout. Lapointe is a pretty prolific musician on the Quebec music scene having been a member of/or is still a member of acts like Atheretic, Augury, and First Fragment, making an audible impact with his fretless bass playing, so it´s big shoes Doyon-Karout has to fill.

Stylistically Beyond Creation continues the high energy technical death metal style with progressive songwriting ideas of the last couple of albums. The fretless bass provides the music with an audible bass presence and a fluid organic flow. "Algorythm" is in most other ways not organic at all. It´s actually a pretty sterile sounding release and the mellow excursions into jazz/fusion and progressive rock/metal territories do nothing to change that perception of the music. Beyond Creation are incredibly well playing and perform many virtuosic guitar riffs- and leads, the above mentioned technical fretless bass playing, a technical drumming attack, and vocals which shift between deep growling and higher pitched screaming/snarling. To my ears the most valid reference is Obscura, but the aforementioned Augury is another.

The sound production is massive, layered, and detailed, but I´m not blown away by the sound, which for all its well sounding qualities ends up presenting the music in a slightly powerless fashion. So upon conclusion "Algorythm" is a bit more shallow in the songwriting- and in the performance deparments than the band´s earlier releases and paired with a sound production which doesn´t provide the music with the needed boost of power, "Algorythm" ultimately comes off a less accomplished release than the preceding albums from Beyond Creation. It´s still a good quality technical/progressive death metal release, but it´s not exactly among the elite albums of the genre. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.

(Originally posted on Metal Music Archives).

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