Rings of Saturn - Godless Times (USA-CA, 2014)
Say what you will about aliencore being a gimmick (yeah fair) or Lucas Mann being a jerk (by all accounts that’s true); this album (clearly their strongest) is solid technical deathcore.
Bonus: managed one more “Of” this week!
That’s pretty much exactly how I feel about Spiral Architect. Everyone does their own thing amazingly, but it just doesn’t work together as a whole:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M7ZipHFZTaY
Blotted Science is pretty much the same thing, but done right. Everything’s technical, but grooves nicely together
That’s some good stuff right there :)
It brings to mind something I noticed recently, after finally having jazz “click” for me in a way I enjoy. A lot of tech and prog metal is essentially jazz with more amplification. Blotted science is pretty much jazz to my ear. And spiral architect, from the little bit I just heard, are drawing heavily on that too, just not as successfully. It’s a bunch of really talented players that aren’t following the same path to a song. Very interesting intellectually, but it isn’t enjoyable in the same way blotted science is.