I don't have a lot of resources to actually check the numbers, and this being a record that was released barely a bit over two months ago and still has the potential to gain even more momentum, Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus currently has twice the number of ratings on Rate Your Music than any of the other ones. Sure, even on our website this album has more ratings than any other Gigan album, but the disparity between, at the time of writing this, 1210 and 581, and the one between 37 and 30, currently present on Rate Your Music and Metal Storm respectively does paint the picture of an album that has put the spotlight on the band's work more than any other before. It is the one that first brought the band's name to my knowledge, and perhaps the seven year gap between this and the previous release contributed to Gigan not being quite the household name, Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus has the biggest chance thus far to change that.
Stylistically, Gigan have a lot in common with other sci-fi themed tech death bands I've covered, and it makes sense that they'd fall under the same umbrella of extremely complex and boundary pushing death metal, but there is more to Gigan to separate them from the norm. On one hand, there's less of a brutal death metal element at play, not being nearly disgusting enough in being bludgeoning to merit that genre tag, but still being informed by the ways that brutal death metal and technical death metal intertwined within the aforementioned bands, as well as taking cues from other acts like Deeds Of Flesh or Defeated Sanity.
The distance that separates Gigan from being properly brutal death metal is instead filled with some avant-garde sounding dissonance, as if playing breakneck Diskord riffs through an Ulcerate filter, and Ad Nauseam techniques within a Mithras framework. The tricks that Gigan employ for that avant-garde-ness is more than just combining other bands' signatures or pushing the envelope of how intricate a death metal song can be, but instead by leaning towards an oddball sense of atmosphere, combining brutality and dissonance with abstract experimentation and esoteric chaos in a way that makes it feel as alien as its eldritch cosmic presentation demands it to be.
Things like a muddy mix and a slightly too elongated formless section in "Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes" do still hold Gigan back during this seemingly make-it-or-break-it moment, but Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus genuinely feels avant-garde in a way that sets it apart even in a time of extreme ambition within the death metal scene.
