Phantazein

With the kind of devastating virtuoso chops that lesser mortals would cheerfully kill for, there is always a danger that making music can be an exercise in technique alone. Technical death metal has certainly been guilty of disappearing up its own fundament from time to time, but when COGNIZANCE are hammering away at full pelt, cynicism is futile. Although they are undoubted badasses to a man (in fact, drummer David Diepold probably has "badass" on his passport),  this primarily English ensem...