SCEPTIC — Internal Complexity (review)

SCEPTIC — Internal Complexity album cover Album · 2005 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"Internal Complexity" is the fourth full-length studio album by Polish death metal act Sceptic. The album was released through Mystic Productions in December 2005. It´s the successor to "Unbeliever's Script" from September 2003. Sceptic had already been through multible lineup changes on their first three albums, and "Internal Complexity" continues that trend. Only guitarist Jacek Hiro and drummer Jakub Chmura remain from the lineup who recorded "Unbeliever's Script". It´s not entirely true though as the vocal tracks for the album were originally recorded by Marcin Urbas (the enhanced version of the album features a bonus disc with the album featuring Urbas original vocal tracks), but before the album was released most of them were re-recorded and replaced by the vocals of new female lead vocalist Weronika Zbieg. One of the new additions to the lineup is quite the prolific name on the Polish death metal scene as Waclaw "Vogg" Kieltyka (Decapitated, Vader, Machine Head) has been added as second guitarist.

Stylistically "Internal Complexity" is maybe a bit more intense and brutal than the first three albums, but otherwise it´s still a technical death metal album strongly influenced by mid-90s Death (the band). Zbieg is a good addition to the lineup as her aggressive snarling growling is pretty intense and well performed. The songwriting is still a bit one-dimensional as it´s also been the case on the three preceding albums, but the individual tracks are of a relatively high quality.

"Internal Complexity" features the best quality sound production on a Sceptic album up until then. It´s a pretty well produced album, featuring a powerful, brutal, and sharp sounding production. "Internal Complexity" ended the first active period of Sceptic and it wouldn´t be until 2020 that they were heard of again (when they released the "Nailed to Ignorance" demo), and not until 2022 that they would release their fifth full-length studio album (also titled "Nailed to Ignorance"). With "Internal Complexity", Sceptic left things a bit unfinished, because they actually began to be on to something here, and therefore a 3 - 3.5 star (65%) rating is warranted.
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