A SCEPTIC'S UNIVERSE

There are two kinds of metal bands who play with an insane amount of technical ability. Those who are intent on melody as well as technicality and those who just pile on the technicality, no matter how terrible it sounds. Spiral Architect's lone effort falls into the latter category. It's like the guys in the band got together and decided, "Hey, we've got some decent song pieces. Let's smush them all together and see how it sounds!" and put what came out on an album. Oh, they layered some crappy vocals on top of it first. Then they put it on album. Ugh. Unless you want to have a laugh at how horrible and unmelodic this is, I wouldn't touch it. Try some Gordian Knot if you want what this band should've been doing.