01. Dokonalé Křišťálové Město
02. Křehký Bůh
03. Kostely Byly Mrakodrapy
04. Zpět Ke Kmenům
05. Mrtvola Jupitera
06. Samotář
07. Čelist Utlačovatele K Obrubníku
08. Znal Jsem Tě
09. Dále Zvenčí
10. Přílišnost

Recipe to make a Přílišnost (Excess):
- Take 300g of Deathspell Omega and mix it with 150g of Jute Gyte
- Add 100g of disparate death metal influences
- Throw everything else you have lying around in your kitchen and hope for the best.

Kostnatění’s previous record, Úpal, was an interesting mix of dissonant black metal and Middle Eastern folk music. It worked incredibly well, and most people expected them to continue exploring and developing that unique style. But you know what? Sticking to one style is boring. And thus, Přílišnost (Excess) tries to do a little bit of everything.

Přílišnost (Excess)’s influences are all over the place. “Dokonalé Křišťálové Město” is tinted with DnB, “Kostely Byly Mrakodrapy” goes back to the Middle Eastern folk of Úpal, “Zpět Ke Kmenům” has a slam breakdown, and “Dále Zvenčí” sounds like a weird and twisted Slipknot track. There’s also some metalcore, post-punk, industrial, and many other influences and inspirations to be noticed, and all of them come as a surprise and make each song that little bit more unique. There is also a much stronger underlying death metal sentiment to Přílišnost (Excess) that wasn’t present on Kostnatění’s previous releases.

That being said, all those different inspirations are usually kept to one or two songs, and make Přílišnost (Excess) a strangely incohesive album, despite its main dissonant black metal sound being present on every track. This also makes each song feel a little gimmicky, and I would have liked for this whole thing to be a little more fleshed out and developed, with those styles clashing into each other instead of being kept neatly separated. At barely 33 minutes of run time, there was definitely room to expand on several of the ideas being presented here; some songs don’t even reach the 3-minute mark!

Ironically, the songs that stand out the most are “Mrtvola Jupitera”, “Samotář” and “Čelist Utlačovatele K Obrubníku”, which also happen to be the ones with less random influences thrown in. These are more “standard” dissonant black metal tracks (if that even is a thing); they are definitely the ones where Kostnatění are in their comfort zone, and that is clearly felt in the songwriting. “Samotář” especially is the highlight of the album for me, and the one I’ve seen myself revisit the most.

In spite of that, I do think that every track on Přílišnost (Excess) works well. There is no real low point to the album since even the genres I’m not particularly fond of (e.g. nu metal) are just treated as another part of this apocalyptic dissonant black metal soundscape, which makes for something truly unique and interesting. I do, however, think that Přílišnost (Excess) never truly goes all out with its many ideas and doesn’t explore all these sounds and inspirations enough. There are traces of greatness here, and I’m sure that the next Kostnatění record will be wild and unpredictable, I just hope it commits to its ideas even further and delivers something not only wild and creative, but also cohesive and memorable.

Performance:	8
Songwriting:	7
Originality:	9
Production:	8