ABSOLUTE ELSEWHERE

It's a beautiful brutal mix of death metal with 70's space/psychodelic rock, in a way that reminds me of the Opeth death metal-era but with a more chaotic approach regarding composition and structure. (although it could have more cohesion)

The Stargate pt II has a collab with Tangerine Dream and it delivers greatly. The atmosphere honestly is fantastic and IMO it's the main strength of the album. The guitar work is beautiful, with lots of trademark sounds you would expect from a 70's space rock act (delays, reverbs, distortion, etc) but allied with the expected (but great) brutal death metal riffage.

The mix is also very good, without going for the usual loudness approach which makes the experience much more pleasant listening with headphones. As excepted, a lot of great growling vocals (and some clean too) but it has a nice spacey reverb which creates a cool effect and doesn't tire your ears after 40 min.

4.5/5