CORTEX

Oh a fantastic moment has passed without any breath. Obviously with getting inspired by Opeth, Death or Tech / Extreme pioneers, a Czech unit MINDWORK have launched their metallic appearance in a deep, heavy manner. They've announced their latest ep "Cortex" would be released in January 2021. We have got their pre-release kit provided by Martin (thanks Martin!) and I wish this ep would be another sunrise in the next brilliant year. Guess every single artist suffer from coronavirus pandemic and cannot work enough for gigging nor recording, but MINDWORK should try to blow such a depressive atmosphere away in this stuff. They would squeeze all of their energetic, magnificent music power into this 17 minute long album, a bit short though.

There is complicated essence blended with darkness and delight. The first short opening "Beyond The Cortex" shows the surface of their inner mind. Quiet but anxious texture hits our heart. "Depersonalized" would be one of their sincere opinions for the current problematic situation all over the world. This is my favourite one, filled with gloomy but sincerely beautiful sound texture like one of authentic grunge combos Alice In Chains. "Last Lie Told" shoots harder, tougher attacks to the audience. The last distorted repetitive movements to encourage everyone are quite impressive. On the other hand, the last "Grinding The Edges" is pretty straightforward, maybe featuring expectation of upcoming bright, fantastic seasons. Yes for wonderful scenery, we must hold 'our cortex' out against such a terrible enemy ... they might say.