ISOMORPHIC — Evulsion (review)

ISOMORPHIC — Evulsion album cover EP · 2014 · Technical Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
UMUR
"Evulsion" is the debut release by US, California based death metal act Isomorphic. It´s a 4 track, 13:22 minutes long EP, which was independently released in digital format in June 2014. Initially for free download, but the band plan to release a commercial version, when they have a more complete artwork in place.

The music on the EP, is technical death metal, featuring skillfully played drumming, ultra fast riffing and fretboard runs, an occasional neo-classical shred part, a very busy and loud in the mix bass, and the brutal and almost completely unintelligible growling vocals by Brent in front (and occasional higher pitched screaming vocals). He is also responsible for the production of the EP...

...and the sound production needs a mention, as it´s a bit more under produced and unpolished than most releases in the technical death metal genre, but I´m pretty sure it´s not something the band have chosen to do on purpose. This is just how it turned out, and while it´s certainly on an acceptable level, music like this could have prospered from a more clear sounding production.

The material on the album is relatively well written. The band sure have both great technical playing skills and also decent compositional skills, but they bring very little original to the table. In fact the music on this EP could have been by almost any of the thousands of more or less anonymous technical death metal acts out there and one can only hope that with time, they´ll be able to create a more personal style, because quite frankly I don´t see them going far with this, unless they focus more on creating an original sound instead of just playing technically complex death metal by the book like so many others do. A 3 star (60%) rating is fair.
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