Hey there, tech fiends. It's that time of the week again. Before we dive into today's focus, here's the usual weekly reminder that if you're looking for even more sick bands to hear, all prior editions of this series can be perused here.
As is often the case, a lot of my new finds for groups I was unaware of prior comes from Facebook friends and music groups on the platform. Right or wrong, a lot of bands in the tech-death sphere feel underrepresented when it comes to metal music site coverage choices for new or largely unknown acts. At the same time, I’m of the opinion that the genre continues to flourish and many bands are creating intrigue takes on the style that eschews standard cliches which often turn people off.
Enter Embodiment, a killer UK-based act who formed in 2013, and dropped their debut self-titled album in 2015. While the group is still an independent act, their recent sophomore album, Palingenesis has been making waves online through word-of-mouth sharing of its brilliance.
When a friend posted it, their description of Palingenesis as something maybe between Cattle Decapitation and Gorod piqued my interest immediately. I’m a sucker for prog-death centered tech-death that remains aggressive and brutal while going for a more progressive metal bend overall. To give you a slightly broader sonic ballpark as to what’s going on here, the band cites influences ranging from Necrophagist, Decapitated, Killswitch Engage, The Acacia Strain, Lamb of God, Sylosis, Unearth, SikTh, and Protest The Hero. They also cite “Artists They Also Like” on their Facebook Page as being groups such as Fissure of Riddles, Oakhaart, Scars of Protest, Ascaris, Atonement, Mortishead, Mordrake, Endeavour, Psalms.
If you combine both of those self-cited lists together, you’ll approach the expansive and ever-shifting approach Embodiment utilize to craft memorable and unique technical death metal. An album such as Palingenesis simply deserves to be heard in order to comprehend it and that’s going to take a number of listens to do so with how dense the material is!
If you haven’t checked out Embodiment – Palingenesis yet, I’ve embedded it for you below. You can follow the group over on the Embodiment Facebook Page. I can’t wait to hear what these guys come up with next and hopefully someone signs them soon.
