ANOMALIES

Cephalic Carnage took the foot of the accelerator here and did a quite melodic album. Well, melodic in their terms. Which mean quite standard death metal. There is less experimentation and grindcore here and more melody like in death metal. There is also a some slabs of hardcore here too. Not to mention some power metal like melody lines at the end of this album. Cephalic Carnage has gone commercial and acceptable.

This development takes away the experimentation of this band. Which in my view is the wrong direction for this band. Cephalic Carnage is one pioneering band which should really concentrate on being innovative. That's their strength. This album is not innovative. It is rather a pretty standard death metal and that is not worthy of Cephalic Carnage's standing in the scene. I do not like this album at all. It think the music here is pretty dull death metal. That's all I can say about this album.

2 stars