| CD REVIEW Sylosis |
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Band: Sylosis Sylosis are a UK-based formation, known for three well appreciated releases: the mini-albums / EPs Casting The Shadows (2006) and The Supreme Oppressor (2007), both released through In At The Deep, and the 2008-full length debut Conclusion Of An Age. My ‘problem’ with that album was a total lack of originality and an enormous predictability. The easy-listening approach and over-produced sound- as well did bore/ bother me a lot. Edge Of The Earth is of the same kind… Hard to live with, because this shit lasts for seventy three minutes. Luckily there’s a global positive direction this time. There are some differences between the former material and this new recording. The whole sounds even more modernised with both its positive and negative consequences. Positive is the production (by Scott Atkins again), being extremely powerful and, in contradiction to the predictable approach, not that ridiculously catchy or over-produced and über-clean. No, the sound indeed is one of the highlights on this album. Another positive evolution might be the increased variation and the modest evolution, or at least a start to evolution, into proper additions. Still Sylosis aren’t renewing, but the copycat-mechanisms are less pathetically present. There are more levels too this time. The contrast melody-aggression has been worked out with better-thought ideas, the cohesion within the songs, and in between these songs, has grown a lot, and the interaction between the members is less childish than before. Cons are the vocals, the many heard-it-a-thousand-times-before constructions, the infantile would-be approach etc. Yet again, in comparison to any former effort, Edge Of The Earth has grown in most aspects. I’m sure there will be an enormous audience for this modern and melodic Death / Thrash / …-stuff. Give it a try and decide yourself… 70/100 Ivan Tibos. |
