ANATA
Well holy shit I say! One of these over-the-top "brutal Death Metal" bands have finally convinced me that there is hope. ANATA's second attack on the scene is an utterly astounding piece of surgical, shredding, diabolical and merciless carnage. ANATA have really taken the scene by the neck and rung it something fierce as this album embodies the finest attributes of technical Death Metal and infuriated it with wrathful and homicidal brilliance.It must be understood that what really makes this album so successful is the incredible craftiness of the musicians who wrote it and their remarkable musical abilities. From an architectural vantage point, this is truly amazing work. Blazing guitar work is highlighted by frenetic flurries of savage technical riffing and supported by punishing drum blasting. Weighing down this sonic butchery are the expected rasping death vocals executed by a guitarist who seems too impossibly busy with his amazing playing to have time to shout them. Those of you who remember Finland's DEMILICH will see the likeness during your listen to this album. Fuse that influence with the likes of Northern Sweden's kings of technical Death/Black Metal, THEORY IN PRACTICE and you have yourself the chemistry of ANATA.
Dreams... is an album not easily ingested upon one or two listens. Its an incredibly complex clockwork opus of dizzy proportions and every listen seems to yield something new. This truly is some of the busiest Death Metal you are likely to hear this year or this decade for that matter. There is no doubt the band worked long days to put this together and a commendable job it is. All modernism of the genre are discarded such as clean vocals or long acoustical passages. This is pure disembowlment but always methodically skilled and coherent.
Dreams... could be this years best and purest Death Metal album. Few will argue after hearing it for themselves and I at once order you to submit to ANATA and torture yourself with this latest 10-track effort.
