Another amazing sci-fi themed tech thrash/death album and this band is amazing with some amazing guitar work and good songwriting all around. This band fully shows of their technicality and songwriting to the fullest with this album and I am not complaining thr riffs and solos are so good and fast and complex to go with I also love the guitar tone in this style of metal it makes me feel something. The vocals are good but I wish were a little better but that’s the only complaint I have ... read more
[edit: 100 --> 91. Still great, absolutely, but far from perfect and not quite as original as I thought.]
Sometimes a band is so talented, so electric, so original, so consistently, without a second’s failure of inventiveness or energy, it makes you angry.
How dare you force me to concede every song on your blasted album is an 11/10? Care you nothing for the jilted little echo chamber of inchoate noise albums and self-loathing doom metal I strive to maintain around me at all times? ... read more
My favorite metal record of 2019.
Xoth nails this pleasing blend of death, thrash, and traditional heavy metal, with a refreshing ear for hooks and crystal clear recording/performances. It's a rare death metal song that can get a guitar hook stuck in your head after a single listen, but "Mountain Machines" and others will do just that. Great work from a criminally underrated band.
| 1 | Casting the Sigil 4:52 | |
| 2 | Mountain Machines 3:53 | |
| 3 | Back to the Jungle 5:05 | |
| 4 | Unseen Abductor 4:57 | |
| 5 | Haruspex 4:23 | |
| 6 | Plague Revival 20XX 5:26 | |
| 7 | The Ghost Hand of God 3:46 | |
| 8 | Melted Face of the Soul 6:43 |