| CD REVIEW Neuraxis |
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Band: Neuraxis The Canadian formation Neuraxis was formed fourteen years ago and gained a huge fan base, especially in their home country, yet since a few years also in Europe, the US and beyond. Throughout those years, the band was been a standard for superior Death Metal, yet each release evolved and progressed in comparison with the former one. As from the beginning, The Thin Line Between too combines aggression with a technical superiority, and brutality with progressive intelligence. Personally I don’t like the influence of Prog-Rock or Progressive elements, yet in this band’s case ‘progression’ gets defined in its most extreme form. The Grind-influences are nearly gone, and more than before, Neuraxis breaks into mid- to up-tempo changes. And those somewhat slower parts still exist in a mesmerizing symbiosis of blasting eruptions and smashing riffs. The mathematic precision is sharp as a psychopath’s razor blade and the sound overwhelming and massive. Those ultra-heavy compositions are created to destroy, and the members’ performance plus the production (Badass Studio with Jef Fortin) are magisterial. On The Thin Line Between, which has, by the way, duration of forty eight minutes, guest vocals were performed by e.g. Luc Lemay (Negativa, ex-Gorguts) and long-time friend Chris Alsop (Torn Within). This monume(n)tal album certainly is Neuraxis’ hardest smack in the face ever! 92/100 Ivan Tibos. |