![]() Sure, Odious Mortem were at times incoherent, 3 but they had serious chops, and those are still pretty sharp in 2020. It hadn’t graced my ears in a decade, but I knew “Gestation of Worms” when I heard it in all of its Necrophagist-worshipping glory. Going back through those records stirred memories of my early years when a young Kronos was just discovering tech death and death metal in general. If you’ve heard Devouring the Prophecy or Cryptic Implosion, you know what you’re getting here. Same intricate guitar work as the latter, but without the sense of narrative. Same American nastiness as the former, but without the breakdowns. They still sound like Decrepit Birth, or, if you want an outgroup comparison, like a cross between Suffocation and Spawn of Possession. Synesthesia is their first release since 2009, and the years have not changed them whatsoever. It’s their congenerss in the Decrepit Birth species complex, Severed Savior Odious Mortem. 1 No, it’s not Brain Drill 2 - they actually released an album in 2016. On this rotation, our laser is scanning data from a Californian tech-death band that took the last decade off to surf. ![]() Time is a flat circle shipped to us in an extremely brittle jewel case. It’s gonna be sick! We’re gonna have war in the Middle East predicated on total fabrications! Let’s hear it for world inaction on climate change! Every tech-death band will be from California for some reason! Let’s go, baby, I’m ready to start the 2000s off right! I… We’re basing the Zeitgeist outside of the Pacific Northwest. Yeah baby, a new decade! Everything we did wrong last decade, we’re gonna fix that, you know what I mean? Flannel - it’s gone.
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