The Fermi Paradox...Out Of This World Metal Reviews

  FLOATING   from Sweden are finding increasingly impressive ways to enrich death metal music with progressive and post punk influences. While their previous release turned heads, this new one is far more refined, confident and accomplished. The primary elements have their place in the music with none of it getting dislodged by the dominance of the other and that's where the beauty lies - there's a subtlety, an emotional fragility that comes through in death metal music, which usually sounds too tough and overbearing for the most part.   "Hesitating Lights"   is a thoughtfully composed, beautifully tempered album of bold, refreshing death metal music, which in these times, is no mean feat.” The album has eight songs, and  “I Reached the Mew”  is first. The opening bass lines dance with the energy of an 80’s song, but the riff that follows is a hardened slab of Post Metal. The devastating harsh vocals mix in and give the song an oil on water quality. The Pro...

  From Bandcamp, “French band  CREATVRE  are back with a new and exciting work,  "Toujours Humain."  As sole member  Raphaël Fournier  says, "the album bears witness to a world where humanity is one of its own relics, a vestige drowned in silicon. It’s a cyber-industrial journey, navigating between collective collapse and the pulse of resilience, each song a visual capsule drawn from this bleak tableau. It’s an allegory of self-erasure for individuals, as programmed by those who set the agenda,"  Fournier  explains. "The shame of still being biological. A lucid awareness with no escape, submerged in a world that operates without us. It’s the exploitation of hope. The commodification of salvation. A false light sold to those who were plunged into darkness. The album is a dystopian soundtrack where violence is cold, almost surgical, and where the only possible utopia is an inner and collective revolt." The album has nine songs, and  “Syntr...