While Artificial Brain's first album, Labyrinth Constellation was very good, Infrared Horizon is a lackluster follow-up. This album is still full of technical guitar riffs, blast beats, sci-fi themed lyrics, etc., but everything about it is extremely messy, and not in the way you'd normally want in a death metal record. The production feels very thrown together and the mixing is just one huge muddy mess. Maybe they were just trying to join the loudness war in between death metal bands, but it ...
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