Album Type : Full Length
Date Released : 18/2/2014
Label : Unique Leader Records
Engineering the Void track listing :
01. Reveal The Unseen 04:49
02. The Nature Of Blight 03:32
03. Breaking The Great Narcissist 05:59
04. A Speech To Survival 03:40
05. Utopia 04:20
06. Monumental Burden 04:01
07. I Am You 03:52
08. Engineering The Void 04:36
02. The Nature Of Blight 03:32
03. Breaking The Great Narcissist 05:59
04. A Speech To Survival 03:40
05. Utopia 04:20
06. Monumental Burden 04:01
07. I Am You 03:52
08. Engineering The Void 04:36
Bio :
Soreption is a
Technical Death Metal band from Sweden having razor sharp technical riffs,
schizophrenic time signatures topped with catchy chugging grooves and intense
vocals. They have created their signature sound not yet replicated by any other
modern band with a strong following to back. Their debut album “Deterioration
of minds”, mixed and produced at Ninetone Studios by Tommy and Chris Rehn from
ANGTORIA was released 2010 and brought major attention to the band as a
formidable force in the genre. The album will be re issued by Unique Leader
Records in 2014
The Band :
Fredrik Söderberg |
Vocals
Anton Svedin | Guitars
Rickard Persson | Bass
Tony Westermark |Drums
Anton Svedin | Guitars
Rickard Persson | Bass
Tony Westermark |Drums
Review :
On February the 18th, Swedish tech-death
quartet Soreption have unleashed eight tracks of winter-tinged rippers that
freeze the listener to the core. You can
try to stop the music, but your hands will not leave your side; you can try to
leave the room, but your legs won’t allow it.
‘Engineering the Void’ will, when put in your player, simply grasp you
and keep you in place until the final dying blasts of the title track (and
album closer) fade away into silence.
Tech-death has always left me feeling very inadequate
as a guitar player. While I try to
meekly belt out a few riffs, tech-death players have already swept up and down
the fret board twelve times, stage dived, gone back on stage and slammed out a
solo that has killed the nearby wildlife.
We mere guitar mortals can do little but shuffle our feet and
apologise. Soreption’s guitarist, Anton
Svedin, is no exception to this rule: he spits out riffs that make eyeballs
bleed at twenty paces, and snaps out pinch harmonics as easily as snapping his
fingers. The songs of Soreption are a
real spectacle to behold, no doubt about it.
Let’s
talk about these songs, then. Sounding
like a more technical Black Dahlia Murder, a slightly less pissed-off
Meshuggah, these tracks pound, pulse and punish speakers with their potent
onslaught of sound. When an album opens
with the audio equivalent of a SCUD missile hitting you square in the chest,
you know the entire album is going to be a massive experience. That’s what opener ‘Reveal the Unseen’ does
with such manic and feverish aplomb: the piece is a weapon of brutality that
aims for mass destruction every time you play it. And you’ll play it. A lot.
It’s
an album of majesty, that’s for sure. ‘Utopia’
is a track where vocalist Fredrik Söderberg bellows and mauls the listener,
tearing huge gobbets of flesh from your body in payment for listening to such a
magnificently brutal tech-death offering.
‘Breaking the Great Narcissist’ has a main riff that clangs and clatters
like a steel sword battering against a shield, with drummer Tony Westermark
acting as the surrounding sound of a massive, unrelenting battle. It’s ‘Engineering the Void’s longest song,
and it’s a sonic war that deserves to be remembered.
Words by :
Chris Markwell
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