On the surface very much in love with the Testimony of the Ancients era Pestilence, this band injects a sensibility of moods more like the technical albums from Immolation and Gorguts, replacing a frenetic urgency with more varied tempi and therefore, more adaptive riffing.
Much of what makes these songs work is an old school perspective on gluing riffs together that could have easily come from Demigod or Asphyx, allowing a building of mood through its own contradiction, like a Socratic dialectic of opposites converging on a sense of function.
Aesthetically, the guitar riffing aims for the open interval off-beat jazziness of middle period Pestilence (and the vocals echo this) but with more of the flexible riff structure of earlier releases, giving this band a voice that, if it develops, could bridge the underground with the present.
Tags: cryoxyd, death metal, Progressive Death Metal, progressive metal, Technical Death Metal
It wouldn’t surprise me if Death’s “Symbolic” album happens to be a favorite of this band. Just an observation with no real judgement. Plus it is difficult to avoid mentioning similarities to established bands when it comes to discussing one that has a limited body of work.
Anyway, hopefully they develop a more original voice and go on to put out great music.
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Hi I’m Eron the singer and guitarist from Cryoxyd.
First of all thank you Brett for this review !
Patrick, are you the real one ?!
If yes, it’s very cool that you know the existence of my band now, I can’t believe it.
I’m a huge fan of Pestilence, every albums till now are just killers and it’s very very rare to have a death metal band from the 80’s, still alive and still producing good albums, honnestly I think there are less than 10 bands in the death metal genre to do so.
Every albums from Pestilence are masterpieces !
The aim of Cryoxyd is more a tribute to all good death metal bands from the 80/90’s, Tampa Florida era and some european bands like Pestilence, we don’t pretend to create something new or original.
My favorite vocalist in DM is I would say, you Patrick (Pestilence), Tardy (Obituary), Marc Grewe (Morgoth), Chuck Schuldiner (Death), Van Drunen (Asphyx) in random order , so I don’t think I will sound more original, because I want to sound exactly this way.
And you almost were right for Death Symbolic, excepted that my favorite one is Individual!
Yes there is probably a lot of Pestilence influences in this album, with Death, that are the only ones that come to my mind when I’m thinkng about it (and Maybe Morbid Angel).
Thanks Patrick for your excellent music, thank you for inspired me all these years, Pestilence rules!
I hope you will enjoy the coming album on december 12th, I will be glad to send you CD for free if you like !
Long life to Death fuckin’ Metal!