Last Sacrament - Maniacal Meditations - guest review
Last Sacrament - Maniacal Meditations - guest review
Tracklist
01. Emergence Of Opposites02. Tyrants Of Pain
03. Self Deceit
04. Post-Human
Guest review by
Alex F January 12, 2015
Last Sacrament shines most in the riffing and general guitar-work, immediately apparent as this monumental EP opens with a short burst of curious sounding, yet not out of place arpeggiated chords. Microtonal scale lengths essentially allow for the instrumentation to deviate from the standard ABCDEFG note limitations within nearly all music of modern times. This is a power which, if executed poorly, could very likely have come across as a gimmick of sorts. Needless to say, Last Sacrament present themselves as masters of songwriting, and ease the listener into these foreign tonal-shifts, accenting more conventional rhythm riffing with the often dissonant lead guitars.
Proving that they are not leaning on the rarity of microtonal scales to attract an audience, Last Sacrament excel in nearly every other department on Maniacal Meditations. The production allows for the low end to be thrown across the room in a sense, creating a monumental sound indicative of early Suffocation. However, this wall-of-sound approach still leaves room for the band to add enough clarity for the listener to fully absorb the melodies and many intricacies of the varied songwriting.
On this particular EP, I view the vocals as a bridge between outstanding riffs. They are not bad by any means, however they do not impress to the point of addiction. Tending heavily towards an incomprehensible and extremely low guttural, the vocalist fails to separate himself from the hordes of others with the same lack of range yet powerful low end. The positive effect from the restrictions on the vocalist's growls is a further accentuation of the deep cavernous sound of the music, however I would have preferred something more unique.
Maniacal Meditations was my first experience with Last Sacrament, however the debut full length is just as good. Innovation like this simply has to occur in order to prevent death metal from becoming a stale genre of copy-cats.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 9 |
| Originality: | 9 |
| Production: | 9 |
Written by Alex F | January 12, 2015
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Thew microtonal part got me interested. Gonna check this later
---- "Aah! The cat turned into a cat!" - Reimu Hakurei
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The fuirst minute I was like "coolio but it's everything is just too low-tuned to get a grip on" but I was amazed of how fast my opinion changed. This shit really works. Thanks a bunch for putting some light on this so uncultured fucks like me can check it out! The durilu-durilu (xD) guitar tones are awesome. 
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