Once again I have the honour to write a review for a band from Costa Rica, and once again it’s via Satanath Records (hey Aleksey, do you have connections out there?) that the audience can meet an act from that Middle-American country.
This young quartet, which includes bassist Carlos Venegas (I recently wrote a review on the newest albums by CorpseGarden and Alastor Sanguinary Embryo, both of them being bands this guy is involved with too, and both of them also active on Satanath Records – and hey, there’s the link in between this country at the one hand, and the Russian label at the other; check out the updates on December 22nd 2015 and June 23rd 2015 respectively), had this second (in early spring 2013 they self-released Course Of Human Destruction) album produced, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Sanchez (the band’s guitar player) and Marcos Monnerat at the home studio of the latter.
The eight pieces on Conquerors Of The New World bring a mechanical-alike form of rhythmic, highly technical and energetic Blast / Death / Tech / Prog Metal. For forty three minutes, this albums hammers and smashes, slashes and crashes, permanently speeding forward, brutalizing man’s ear drums and man’s brain.
The first time I listened to this album, I thought it was little too exaggerated, and too forced. But after some more listens, I started to see the whole concept, including the different layers that lie beneath. And you know, actually this whole experience is quite diverse and thoroughgoing; you just need to dare to go deeper than the superficiality of brutality and violence alone. Not a cacophony of loudness, it turns out to be, yet a creatively worked out composition…
Take some of the better elements from, let’s say, Nile, Cephalic Carnage, Pestilence, Decapitated, Gorguts and Hour Of Penance, mix it with some additional techprognoisestuff and hints of MechanoMachineryMusic (sorry, I do not follow anymore either…), and here you have the sonic result being called Inhuman. Pretty inhuman it is indeed…