Insurrection – Obsolescence
Insurrection – Obsolescence
Self – Released
Release Date: 13/09/2024
Running Time: 42:07
Review by Metalphysicist
9/10
Insurrection is a Quebec based band who have been “making music for the metal community for over 20 years, so it felt right to start this album, “Obsolescene”, as an ode to the scene that they love and have been part of for most of their lives.” The band’s musical style is an ‘unique blend of Groovy Death Metal and Thrash energy’.
I guess that you’ve noticed that the content on the first paragraph of this review is a paraphrase taken from the band’s EPK. I encourage all the bands to send us info about their history and their musical style – it helps a lot in the life of the reviewer’s contextual elements of the text, as it did on this present review.
On the other hand, I am not oblliged to describe Insurrection’s musical style as read on the EPK, because it is my duty to check out the album and write my own opinion about it.
That being said, “Obsolescence” is an album that delivers great songs by combining Thrash Metal’s urgency with the band’s Death Metal main line. YOu can hear this on such songs like ‘Hostile Takeover’, which is benefited by constant roared vocal lines that help to stabilise Insurrection’s musical proposal and the ambience that are presented all over the 11 songs on “Obsolescence”.
The song ‘Obsolete’ represents very well the ambience forged in-between both Death Metal and Thrash Metal style, thanks to awesome arrangements, enabling Insurrection to bring something unique to their musical style.
Even though Insurrection is formed by talented musicians they play for the music’s sake by avoiding endless solos and boring bridges, and the album’s production work and mixing process is great.
The songs also provide enough soundscapes in their arrangements, opening room to highlight the austere drums, for example at the beginning of ‘One Last War’ that is a colossus mayhem; the Extreme Metal riffs on ‘Via Qayini’. The awesome production also highlights the superb bass work.
As I get to the end of this review, I must admit that the band’s description of “Obsolescence” in the EPK is corrected when they tell us that the album is an ‘ode’ to ancient Death and Thrash Metal, quoting the influences of Insurrection recommended for fans of Misery Index, Testament, and Nevermore.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Preprogrammed
02. The Gathering
03. Failures of the Flesh
04. Le secret des dieux
05. Némésis
06. Hostile Takeover
07. Obsession
09. Initiate the End
10. Obsolete
11. Bless the Machine
LINE – UP:
Jay Cross – Drums
Martin Samson – bass
Stef Jomphe – Vocal
Mike Birch – Guita,
Antonin Perras-Foisy – Guitar
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