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- Band:
Whitechapel - Duration: 00:43:11
- Available since: 07/03/2025
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Metal Blade Records
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In life as well as in music, there are paths that, after immense rpm, end up bringing back those who made them home, where it all started. This, for better or for worse, is the image that we feel to combine with the new studio effort of the Whitechapels, has been announced for some time as a sort of return to the origins and a bans of a style that actually is in net antithesis with the introspective research and the melodic sensitivity of the previous “The Valley” and “Kin”, in a visceral spasm from which the desire to recover Certain vision of extreme American metal (we are talking about the born and diffused one in the MySpace era) and to give a sound as brutal, dark, percussive as possible.
“This will be our heaviest album ever“; We know, it is an expression to say the least abused and cloying, but it must be said that for once, in the case of “Hyms in Dissonance”, it is not so out of place or span in the air; In fact, listening to the ten tracks of the disc, and discovering the concept based on the events of a Santone and its deviated sect, the impression that the Knoxville group has not only rewinded the tape until the time of “The Somatic Defilement”, “This is exile” and “A New Era of Corrupion”, but also exasperated some characteristics, in the sign of a regressive process that has not only rewinded. For large sections – he erases angrily that stylistic evolution mentioned above.
We then return to the unequivocally Deathcore registers of the first career phase, to that mix of ABorted, Dying Fetus and Meshuggah, seasoned by a series of very heavy breakdown and vague black metal hints, which defined the name of Phil Bozeman and companions at that time, with a further past of livery and rot (just hear the growl of the growl Frontman, sewage as it had not happened for years, or the aforementioned elephantia slowdowns) to make the attitude and intentions of this Comeback unequivocally.
Ascertained that, as per tradition, songwriting always remains on decent levels, which here too it is possible to come across some melodian escape (as in the final katatonic of the excellent “Nothing is coming for any of US”, a sign that not everything of the recent past has been denied) and that, in general, in their rejoining the roots, our our most honest and credible of other formations seduced by nostalgia (suicide silence?), Is it clear that the whole, for those who had appreciated the chiaroscuro and the emotion of the records of 2019 and 2021. Involution, of behind behind what seemed to be an organic and linear path, with several songs to follow clichés rather than creative spontaneity.
A work that, ultimately, scrupulously pays homage to such an unforgettable mythology (at least for certain thirty -year -old listeners), as dated, reaffirming both the experience and authority of its authors, and a basic intent that limits the expressiveness and dynamics. A work that, having taken note of the 'blow' of episodes such as the Title-Track, “A Visceral Retch” and “Diabolic Slumber”, as well as some redundant parenthesis, means that the curiosity to know in which direction the sextet will proceed after this hangover of raised guitars to collapse and rhythmic escapes in odd time remains legitimate.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
