![]() ![]() And that’s a weird statement to make: normally in metal you’re always thinking of the guitars, or the vocals, but the draw of the band for me has always been the fretless bass wizardry of Dominic Lapointe, who would wend and wind his way through the most intricate of riffs and passages laid down by Simon Girard and company. Listening to Algorythm, the third album from Quebec’s Beyond Creation, you’d never think they changed bass players. But for right now it’s still the progressive hodge-podge that is technical death metal so for this edition of Second Circle let’s dive back into the syncopation with the latest offerings from Beyond Creation and The Odious Construct. Maybe it’s nü-country, who knows? All I know is I’ve been learning to trust what my ears tell me and when it finds something good, to cling to it until the next thing comes along. Sometimes it works that way: you spend a few months completely immersed in black metal, then it’s scuzzed out stoner rock or some other genre niche for a couple of weeks until your lizard brain responds to something else. ![]() I didn’t mean to do another round of technical death metal, but the last few weeks have just brought out some killer stuff and it’s been scratching that melodic itch I’ve had lately. In Nine Circles, it’s where we do shorter reviews of new (ish) albums that share a common theme. In Dante’s Inferno, the second circle begins the proper punishment of Hell, a place where “no thing gleams.” It is reserved for those overcome with Lust, where carnal appetites hold sway over reason. ![]()
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