Anata - The Conductor's Departure - review
Anata - The Conductor's Departure - review
Tracklist
01. Downward Spiral Into Madness02. Complete Demise
03. Better Grieved Than Fooled
04. The Great Juggler
05. Cold Heart Forged In Hell
06. I Would Dream Of Blood
07. Disobedience Pays
08. Children's Laughter
09. Renunciation
10. The Conductor's Departure
A review by
Herzebeth August 05, 2006
If you are a lazy person who despises long reviews and hates to read a lot, let me make things easier for you: This album is a brilliant attack ready to disintegrate your eardrums with technicality and violent explosions, buy it.
Now for the people interested in reading a little more; this album characterizes perfectly all that is good in Technical Death Metal, we have it all in here, melodic passages, clean guitars, complex timing, long solos, irregular scales and overwhelming structures all over the place. There are few bands combining all those features as most of the times technical groups try to focus on one and only one point to reach it perfectly; for example, Quo Vadis has the melody, Sceptic has the irregular structures, Theory In Practice has the passages, etc. but Anata takes all those elements and creates a perfect combination in this album.
Downward Spiral Into Madness could be the best example of this band's capabilities and abilities. The whole instrumentation is managed in layers and the overall structure shows a really sharp and complex composition; the song starts with a melodious introduction and then explodes its power and everything becomes really aggressive, finally, after a couple of passages and bridges, the song concludes with an artistic (almost glam) fade-out. So anyway, that song is great but you'll find more songs in this album don't worry.
I liked this album a lot, it's quite entertaining and it will please the target audience in an amazing way. Anata is not a young band at all, that would be my main concern as they haven't yet created a true MASTERPIECE; sure The Conductor's Departure is a great album and maybe more, but it will not reform the genre as far as I can see. Still is a worthwhile album and it deserves its place in your shelves for sure.
Best Tracks: "Downward Spiral Into Madness", "The Conductor's Departure", "Better Grieved Than Fooled"
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 10 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 8 |
Written by Herzebeth | August 05, 2006
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I only heared one track for these guys... their not that bad [Edit] just got the album.... and I'm loving it  other than the tracks the reviewer mentioned I recomend "I would dream of blood"... It shows another side of Anata
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One EXCELLENT album I agree, it has everything a modern Tech DM band should have.
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I have actually heard this one! Because the band name called my attention, I got some samples off of some friend. It wasn't bad
---- Stick this up your fucking pee-aitch-dee.
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ANATA is a very good band, their album Dreams of Death and Dismay is their best to me!!
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In agreement with Ylside. Fucking A. I Love Anata so much 
---- "You're all the same, the lot of you, with your long hair and faggot clothes. Drugs, sex, every sort of filth. And you hate the police, don't you? You make it easy."
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I hate this album and I think it's probably the worst tech death album I've heard in my life.
---- My account on other musical pages: http://www.last.fm/user/Pozito/ http://rateyourmusic.com/~Talvi
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This album is really interesting. The compositions and arrangements are very good. Very talented musicians
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One of the best Technical Death Metal album i own.. and i'm proud of it
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Posts: 21306 Written by bunnies&rainbows on 11.04.2011 at 08:36 QFT  This album is intense all the way through, with the exception of the "Children's Laughter", which is fantastic in its own right.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Posts: 383 Written by Talvi on 07.09.2009 at 20:54 Are you for real?... 😐🤨
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"Quo Vadis has the melody, Sceptic has the irregular structures, Theory In Practice has the passages, etc. but Anata takes all those elements and creates a perfect combination in this album." This is, to this day, my favourite Tech Death album! The exact perfection mentioned above!
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