Band:	Eyeless
Album:	The All Seeing Eye
Style:	Progressive death metal
Release date:	April 01, 2010
A review by:	Doc G.

01. God
02. Reign Of Slaves
03. Hollow
04. The All Seeing Eye
05. We Leave

First of all, fuck the music for just a few seconds, I would like to talk about myself. I put a lot of time into reviewing albums for your reading pleasure, and it sucks. Every time you receive a request from a smaller band to review an album, you hope you'll be the one to uncover some unknown band that could change the face of metal, but all you're left with is bitter disappointment and a good chunk of your life wasted. Boring, generic or just downright atrocious is generally all you find.

Ladies and gentlemen, it seems my luck has turned around.

I can say with 100% confidence that this is the best piece of music I've received from an independent band ever, and probably will be for a long time. This is prog for people who generally don't enjoy prog. Instead of trying to make the most complex music possible, this band focus' on variety above anything else. This EP is very similar to Still Life era Opeth in many aspects; jazzy passages, haunting atmospheres, and the incredibly smooth (we're talking Sean Connery smooth here, people) transitions from the soft instrumental bits into full blown thrashed-out death metal. Think Still Life, then add a bunch of new stuff: Sitars, a variety of different synths ranging from horror-sounding orchestral to modern organs, jazz instrumentals. Oh yeah, and all the wussified clean vocals are only tastefully added in to give certain parts depth, rather than going 50/50 with the harsh vocals.

Aside from the clean vocals sounding sort of weak in "We Leave", I really can't find anything wrong with this EP at all...Granted, the Opeth influences are quite obvious, but it's still fresh, exciting, shockingly well produced, and holds the most variety I've ever heard crammed into a 5 song EP. If there was ever a band that deserved the attention of a large record label, it's Eyeless.