Here's a band with guts. After a demo and an album (Spirit Of Purity) containing atmospheric black metal, this band changed direction musically. There's guts needed to do it as there's no doubt you will heavily disappoint the fans who are mainly into black metal. In fact, the fans will hear a completely different band. The only thing that hasn't changed, is the name and you might wonder if it wouldn't have been wiser to change that as well. Lengsel did so when they started playing thrash rock instead of black metal, and thus are now known as Ganglion. Here's a band with guts, also because of the music. It's experimental metal. Take for instance the first track, Labels. Here is a song that blends progressive metal with clean singing and death grunts. And then you hear, all of a sudden, a flute playing. The music is constantly evolving. The keyboard playing is a bit in the vein of Veni Domine. Fast parts are almost extinct. Only occasionally the speed goes up. The result of the disc is experimental with lots of great ideas that sometimes need to be worked out better. It's an album that also needs a bit more time to fully dawn upon you. A song like Lavender is an absolute beauty but, I have to say as a deejay, with almost eight minutes it's not really radiofriendly! A bit more catchiness and hooks wouldn't be such a bad idea either. So, the conclusion is: a talented band with guts, with many great ideas and potential and yet...
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