UnexpecT -- In A Flesh Aquarium

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So I just got through listening to this album. After which I sat staring at a wall for about 10 minutes wondering what the heck I just listened to. Avant-garde technical symphonic extreme black cabaret metal? How the heck do you describe this? It's like what would happen if Gorguts met Athiest and Therion in a threesome and somehow produced one insanely twisted child.  I mean, can you call it prog? Can you call it... anything? I don't know whether to suggest it as a new entry or to warn people to avoid it at all costs. I mean, dear God, it's enough to make me use smileys.

So... does anybody know what the hell I just listened to?

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Gamemako Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 31 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1184	Topic: UnexpecT -- In A Flesh Aquarium Posted: September 15 2006 at 23:38
	So I just got through listening to this album. After which I sat staring at a wall for about 10 minutes wondering what the heck I just listened to. Avant-garde technical symphonic extreme black cabaret metal? How the heck do you describe this? It's like what would happen if Gorguts met Athiest and Therion in a threesome and somehow produced one insanely twisted child. I mean, can you call it prog? Can you call it... anything? I don't know whether to suggest it as a new entry or to warn people to avoid it at all costs. I mean, dear God, it's enough to make me use smileys. So... does anybody know what the hell I just listened to?

MikeEnRegalia Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 17173	Posted: September 16 2006 at 02:40
	It's progressive music, but I don't think it's prog. I haven't listened to it yet - but I did listen to the lengthy samples they have on their myspace page. I think for this type of band the question "is it prog" is a really difficult one ... IMO there is a vast "gray" area between truly prog bands and bands which are merely experimental.

Gamemako Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 31 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1184	Posted: September 16 2006 at 11:45
	Aye, symphonic black metal with some clean female vocals and a violin is necessarily experimental. But it's difficult to grasp their rhythms on the first spin -- I had to give it a second go to figure it out. The rhythmic variations remind hugely of Atheist. Since Atheist is in the Archives (and if you ask me, they definitely belond there), I wonder if it might fit in there as well. I would recommend giving the entire album a few spins, try and figure it out. I'm leaning toward prog simply for diversity and complexity -- pull out Feasting Fools for a blasting Athiest reference, or the more tame yet still disturbing Desert Urbania for a more standard prog metal feel. And the absurdity of some of it... reminds me of that omnipresent Pink Floyd tour-de-force of absurdity, The Wall. I think to call them "merely" experimental would be a vast understatement. If not prog, they're obscenely experimental, and quite frankly, I don't know WHAT to call them.