:34 mark
Weird album. Progressive front cover and song titles, but death
metal innards through and through. Very similar to Canadian compatriots
Cryptopsy, but more European in melodic concept. Contrary to its solid and foundational
title, Temple of Knowledge is an
exploded, chaotic mess of blast and thrash beats, excellent/insane drummer Nick
Miller (they’re on drummer #6, I think) dictating all style and change, guitar
and bass trailing cautiously with each pass. The timidity of its riffs is a
major weakness, the quartet relying heavily on vocalist Sylvain Houde to fill
all remaining spaces. An obvious presence, Houde is a big bang in a suffocated
vocal style, layering tracks upon tracks in tongues, some backwards,
unexplained expulsions of alien noises in command, terror, anguish,
desperation. Just so far gone from thick-riffed future assaults like Prophecy and Epic, the band recorded on Sorcery
and Temple a passable
experimentation of a genre in need of reinvention. Likely precursor to US death
metal band Origin.
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