SEBEK

It was since "No More Sense" that Senmuth wasn't so hard. This is a metal album with no doubts. The industrial sounds are back together with Senmuth's vocals, something that was missing since a while, but this time his vocal distortion is not so disturbing as in the past.

After a short intro that's really not bad, the track two brings us directly to the dark side of the Nile, with the ethnic background overwhelmed by the distorted guitar and the heavy electronic percussions. Senmuth is not a true growler, but his screamed singing distorted by his kit sounds very "death metal".

The track's lengths go from 5 to 10 minutes more or less, for a total of 80 minutes of very heavy and esotheric music.

The ethnic moments are present also in this album and it's interesting how the middle eastern music and its percussions in particular can fade seamlessly into techno metal. Respect to other Senmuth's there's a good improvement in the transitions. They are studied and things don't happen suddenly anymore. It was one of the defects on some of the previous albums: sudden transitions, pauses and meaningless changes of pitch. On this album everything flows from the middle-eastern melodies to the darkest metal. Track 4 is probably the best example.

In general the transition is from ethnic to metal, but sometimes is the opposite. On Track 7 there's a distorted guitar which supports introduces an ethnic piece. A kind of fusion that's not unusual for Senmuth but that makes him unique, specially in this album that's the first after a long series to be more metal than ethnic oriented.

An excellent addition for open-minded listeners, good for metallers, maybe a bit challenging for the others.