Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the media-library-assistant domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-content/plugins/onecom-vcache/vcaching.php on line 630 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-content/plugins/onecom-vcache/vcaching.php on line 638 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php on line 8 Technical – Power Of Metal.dk https://newsite.powerofmetal.dk For Metal fans by Metal fans Sat, 23 Dec 2017 11:21:06 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://usercontent.one/wp/newsite.powerofmetal.dk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cropped-PowerHorns_neg-2-32x32.png?media=1721422031 Technical – Power Of Metal.dk https://newsite.powerofmetal.dk 32 32 Fractal Universe – Engram of Decline https://newsite.powerofmetal.dk/?p=19224 https://newsite.powerofmetal.dk/?p=19224#respond Sat, 15 Apr 2017 20:52:16 +0000 http://powerofmetal.dk/?post_type=album-review&p=19224 [Read »]]]> For a debut album, Engram of Decline by the French metallers of Fractal Universe is beyond impressive. Then again, it seems as if these guys have honed their songwriting since their very first release and EP, Boundaries of Reality. This time around, they’ve created a concept album that is based on Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” – a nearly 60-minute journey that encircles the history of human thought pertaining and building up to the philosopher’s notion of Übermensch.

Having listened to this album three times, I can now, with clear conviction, say that it is rightfully ambitious. The overall output is technical, yet melodic, and it is riddled with a properly thick (very fat) wall of sound. It has it all: spoken lines, death growls, a mixture of clean and harsh vocals that end up sounding thrashy at times, several groovy flairs in the rhythms, slow instrumental parts, a menacing classical act on the piano, as well as dissonant riffs that create atonal and eerie sounds. Engram of Decline is really a mixed bag, equipped with orchestral elements showcased just in the right passages. In addition to all of that, there is a guitar solo by Michael Keene of The Faceless, as well as a presence of a saxophone by Jørgen Munkeby of Shining.

Although Fractal Universe doesn’t dwell in the shadows of their influences excessively, it is obvious that they have practiced their crafts with Obscura, Meshuggah, and perhaps Gorguts in mind. The kind of chord progressions the two guitarists Vince Wilquin (who is also the vocalist) and Hugo Florimond are able to summon is a testament to that in the most positive light. They were able to pick up some technical aspects necessary to be exploited and created a sound that is truly their own – technical, djenty, lengthy progressive riffs with hints of black metal, and very melodic solos.

A uniquely sophisticated approach to the prog/tech-death genre that is virtuosic, but not lacking in direction. In other words, Engram of Decline is a tornado of fine musicianship that isn’t drowned in its own soup of senseless technicality.

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