Music communicates an experience more than emotions directly; our emotions arise in response to it. The best music first manages to hold together as a consistent voice, and then explores its own take on the world, even if not original in style or necessarily profound; it needs personality.

Arktheos Cosmolith uses primitive rhythm techniques and quick chromatic runs to fill out its riffs which follow the whipping urgent style of Sarcofago crossed with an approach like early Demigod to fill in partial melodies gesturing at the unknown hidden within, and maintains an evolving protean atmosphere.

Like war metal, it consists mostly of rhythm but in the ratios and contrasts of that rhythm across multiple riffs, builts up a sensation of urgency in descent into primal chaos, and from that, is able to make some of its grander suggestions offhandedly like they would occur in nature, observed from afar without fanfare.

Tags: arktheos, death metal, War Metal