Upheaval

Auch das zweite Album der Band aus Leeds bringt alles mit, was Fans von modernem Tech Death erfreuen dürfte. Flitzefinger-Riffs, anspruchsvolle Leadgitarren und eine saubere, transparente Produktion sind Zutaten, die auch Bands wie Beyond Creation oder Psycroptic erfolgreich anwenden. Aber obwohl COGNIZANCE auf dem Papier alles richtig machen, will der Funke nicht recht überspringen. Vielleicht,

Death metal can seem a crowded marketplace at times, but bands as distinctive as COGNIZANCE generally tend to rise to the top. Ultimately, the genre has become an intermittent battle between the instinctively creative and the lazily generic, and it's albums like "Upheaval" that are doing much of the hard work to ensure that death metal's more adventurous tendencies are continually exploited. COGNIZANCE are a straightforward technical death metal band at heart, as showcased on their utterly ri...