DEFIANT IMAGINATION

Since the beginning of the album, we found what we're gonna listen the 40 minutes it lasts. To anybody who doesn't enjoy the most brutal music founded that side of technicity (I've heard much more brutal music, but hardly have technic) they're being afraid of what they're listen, but this is Technical-Progressive-Death-Metal, I'd told you.

On 1st track we have a graet opener for an album of that kind, although at 3:41 we found an outro solo of grat magnitude who demonstrates we are listening to a very capable musicians (especially playing fast).

In the second track we have an absolute amount of the feeling this music provides to the listener, being a rollercoaster of sound who elevates you to that sensation of giving a piggyback, watching the horrors of life this music expresses so well.

On 3rd track we have a great start for a song which emphatises more in feeling, with that soloist lines we found in here. This is one of the best songs I've heard in Metal. It provokes me goosebumps the form we use the ultra-fast guitar rythm and the gutural voice at the end of the track.

The 4th song, "Tunnel Effect", is the fourth part of a saga already classic for Quo Vadis. At that level of the album, I realise the better use of the voice of 2nd vocalist, doing the reply of the main voice. At middle section we found a great rythmic guitar plenty of speed, a great riff I can at very least smile when hearing.

At this point we found in track 5 the same style offered before, a lot of technique at the service of musical aggression. The solo found here is so Schuldiner-ish I realised how much this man did for the style. This one is perhaps the most dense track of the entire album.

For some ear-rest, here in 6th track we found some cello and an operistic opus sang in latin, a filler track who informs the end (of the album) is near. It suits perfectly with the album, being not the first time this group uses cello to complement their wall of sound.

At track 6 we have another technician piece of music, feeling the bass in consonance with that scorching rhythm.

On the 7th cut we found some melodies never heard before in this album. Is one of the most epic song in the album, and we hear the "natural" voice of the singer (yes! he can speak too!), but for little time. Again he uses his shredded voice, combining with the other one. The drumming in the entire album is superb, demonstrating being one of the most sucessful drummers in Death Metal nowadays.

The last track is a beatifully arranged outro song leaving you a feeling that you've listen a complex and beautiful album (in the extreme end feelings of anger and sorrow), being the peak of their discography.

If you like Technical Metal (Death, Atheist) you've gotta love this piece of extreme art. I'm reticent to give 5 stars gratuitously, so I give it 4 stars, whom is the right rate (I think).