SCEPTICAL SCHIZO — Into the Suction of Blue / Withdrawn (review)

SCEPTICAL SCHIZO — Into the Suction of Blue / Withdrawn album cover EP · 1992 · Death-Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
UMUR
"Into the Suction of Blue / Withdrawn" is an EP release by Finnish thrash/death metal act Sceptical Schizo. The EP was independently released in June 1992 and follows the release of no less than four demo recordings which were released in the years 1989-1991. Sceptical Schizo formed in 1988 under the Epidemic monicker but changed their name to Sceptical Schizo later the same year. They operated under the Sceptical Schizo band name until 1993 when they changed their name to Lavra.

The four demos preceding this 2 tracks, 11:50 minutes long EP were all in a brutal thrash metal style, but the last two demos "Danse Macabre" (August 1990) and especially "The Four Seasons" (February 1991) saw Sceptical Schizo experiment with their sound and it was audible that the band were on a musical journey which was far from over. Listening to "Into the Suction of Blue / Withdrawn" that becomes even more clear, because Sceptical Schizo are now no longer playing thrash metal but instead perform a weird and experimental/avant-garde death-doom metal style (some sections of "Withdrawn" can even be labelled funeral doom metal and there´s a slow and heavy death´n´roll touch here and there too) with both growling vocals and some murky gothic type male clean vocals. I´m honestly not sure how to describe this correctly, but it´s certainly both odd and unconventional (the use of clarinet and keyboards are quite unusual in the way they are used here). Maybe a band like the French in Supuration/SUP is a valid reference, but this is actually pretty unique for the time.

The sound production is decent but also unpolished and a bit murky. It´s suits the aestethics of the music pretty well though. "Into the Suction of Blue / Withdrawn" has come as a complete surprise to me after listening to Sceptical Schizo´s demos. Nothing on those demos (even though the last two did feature a more experimnetal edge) could have prepared me for what "Into the Suction of Blue / Withdrawn" contains. I´m confused but in a good way and the odd avant-garde death-doom metal style of "Into the Suction of Blue / Withdrawn" is certainly more interesting and accomplished than anything Sceptical Schizo had put out before. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.
Share this review
more

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

Review Index

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

Unatøned Groove Metal
MACHINE HEAD
Buy this album from MMA partners
Inverted World Death Metal
CANCER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Exhumed Vol. 2 Deathcore
COMMON THIEVES
Buy this album from MMA partners
Lungsplitter Sludge Metal
LUNGSPLITTER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Control Death Metal
LANDFILTH
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

The Original Alice Cooper Group - Black Mamba (Official Video)
ALICE COOPER
Tupan· 7 days ago
Common Thieves - No Quarter (Official Visualizer)
COMMON THIEVES
Bosh66· 9 days ago
Common Thieves - Null & Void (Official Music Video)
COMMON THIEVES
Bosh66· 9 days ago
Common Thieves - Collapse
COMMON THIEVES
Bosh66· 9 days ago
Common Thieves - 1978 (Official Music Video)
COMMON THIEVES
Bosh66· 9 days ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed