I don’t mean to be the wet blanket here, but On Death is blah sludge metal with a few subtle jazzercisms.
But then their original members departed, leaving guitarist/founder Davide Tiso to assemble an all-star lineup - ace of bass Steve DiGiorgio, Teutonic drum master Marco Minnemann, and former Crisis vocalist Karyn Crisis - for this EP that sounds nothing like the band or any of its massive talents. I remember being stunned by Italian jazz metallers Ephel Duath on their debut Painter’s Pallet they had a really unique and well-defined sound, like metal’s The Mars Volta. On a playlist with: Yakuza, Maudlin The Well, Intronaut
I imagine this sounds distasteful to the veteran Faceless fan, but if you don’t lyk Ottotheism you arn’t a tr00 fan! I’ve listned 2 them for all they’re albums and there all grate! Their all about progreshion and you pepple have to relize taht! But seriously, this album is the balls. Lead guitarist and songwriter Michael Keene has become such a dominant force with his clean singing that he almost eclipses the growling of new “lead vocalist” Geoffrey Ficco. (For genres as universally uncool as progressive rock and metal, there are an awful lot of bands gravitating to them.) Here The Faceless sounds more like a spawn of Akerfeldt and Townsend than of tourmates Revocation or Veil of Maya. On a playlist with: Between the Buried and Me, The Ocean, In MourningĬalifornian deathcore-turned-tech-death dudes The Faceless have jumped ship again: Enter The Faceless version Prog.0. Check it out if you dug Cruel Melody or anything vaguely NIN-sounding. I was one of more than a few people who was a little blindsided by the unexpected quality of BLB debut Cruel Melody it was long, filler-packed, and pretentious, but its badass tunes are in my rotation to this day. On TMYRYGTF, Borland continues down a familiar and no less grandiose path , splitting its time between quirky rockers and eerie industrial epics that wear Reznorisms clear on their sleeves. After a hiatus from his current solo project to record MetalSucks Best Album of 2011, Wes Borland is back with Black Light Burns’ sophomore album.
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