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Spiketrain - Conundrum Concept Demo 4.5/5

Most guitar virtuosos in metal take after a neo classical influence.
While Cynic, Atheist and Dillinger's Escape Plan brought an
unconventional jazz influence into the spectrum through 2 generations,
no one has really explored the idea to its fullest extent. All these
extreme Mathcore/Math Metal bands dabble in jazz but there is only ONE
so pure and so fully emerged in jazz and that is Spiketrain.

Spiketrain is a composed, free time jazz metal band that writes
in sessions of 3 seconds to every hour! You think you and your band
works hard...you have absolutely no comprehension whatsoever what hard
work is. Spiketrain's hard work serves an artistic purpose and
not just for recognition. It seems other bands in the genre are jazz
tinged math metal. What Spiketrain is, is the complete
opposite; math metal tinged jazz. Nothing ever repeats; there are no
chorus', no hooks and because of it first listen might feel a little
uncomfortable. So many different things are being played at once all at
incredible speeds. The beauty of Spiketrain is their chaotic
and dissonant sounding music is actually melodic and organic on a
profound level. Being its only 2 songs and around 4 minutes, that's
plenty of extra time to repeat the songs and try to catch on, little by
little.

The drummer Paul Olsen plays with every limp completely independent.
Jazz has never been played so angry and fast before, EVER. This leads
me to their vocalist. Adam has a very powerful "from the gut" style of
singing. It's very "pukey" and punk sounding.

These 2 songs single handedly push the already extreme boundary of Tech
Metal to a new level. This band is just so young and write so tedious
it might take awhile to catch on.

-Keith Carlson

http://www.myspace.com/spiketrain

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Keithapparatus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 22 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 31	Topic: Spiketrain Posted: July 10 2007 at 04:04
	Spiketrain - Conundrum Concept Demo 4.5/5 Most guitar virtuosos in metal take after a neo classical influence. While Cynic, Atheist and Dillinger's Escape Plan brought an unconventional jazz influence into the spectrum through 2 generations, no one has really explored the idea to its fullest extent. All these extreme Mathcore/Math Metal bands dabble in jazz but there is only ONE so pure and so fully emerged in jazz and that is Spiketrain. Spiketrain is a composed, free time jazz metal band that writes in sessions of 3 seconds to every hour! You think you and your band works hard...you have absolutely no comprehension whatsoever what hard work is. Spiketrain's hard work serves an artistic purpose and not just for recognition. It seems other bands in the genre are jazz tinged math metal. What Spiketrain is, is the complete opposite; math metal tinged jazz. Nothing ever repeats; there are no chorus', no hooks and because of it first listen might feel a little uncomfortable. So many different things are being played at once all at incredible speeds. The beauty of Spiketrain is their chaotic and dissonant sounding music is actually melodic and organic on a profound level. Being its only 2 songs and around 4 minutes, that's plenty of extra time to repeat the songs and try to catch on, little by little. The drummer Paul Olsen plays with every limp completely independent. Jazz has never been played so angry and fast before, EVER. This leads me to their vocalist. Adam has a very powerful "from the gut" style of singing. It's very "pukey" and punk sounding. These 2 songs single handedly push the already extreme boundary of Tech Metal to a new level. This band is just so young and write so tedious it might take awhile to catch on. -Keith Carlson http://www.myspace.com/spiketrain

asimplemistake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 13 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 840	Posted: January 17 2008 at 00:16
	The description here hits the nail on the head. The music is extremely complex, theres no trace of repetition, and the amount of time practicing shows through in the music. Although I am not a fan of the "pukey" vocals (quoting you), it adds to the chaos brought by the technicality of the rest of the band. There is some excellent musicianship here, something to be proud of. I feel the strongest track of the two is Ryerson, mainly because it has some breaks and softer sections, which add points of interest into the pieces. It also has a wonderful, albeit short, jazzy guitar solo which I liked to hear. It gave some nice contrast.