DE-LOUSED IN THE COMATORIUM

Excellent high energy, intense rock with a touch of dark experimental extremism of the new bands, and the progressive sensibilities of the old. The instrumental attack gets very intense with drums, bass and heavily distorted guitars hitting hard in complex time signatures, while the soaring, sometimes piercing vocals deliver dark lyricism. Absolutely amazing vocal work, unlike anything I've ever heard before: the combined male and female vocal adds to the overall confusion and mayhem, and works wonderfully. Overall, the album has an identifiable style, and yet each song has enough variation to keep an old proghead like myself interested. Despite the noisiness, the album overall manages to be quite melodic. This is the ultimate evolution of "prog-metal" and "alternative rock" - a fusion of the two, really. Forget crappy Radiohead and Dream Theater. This is truly brilliant stuff.