This is the fourth album from the amazing Intronaut – the most groove-tastic of all the Prog metal bands. The band have brought more melody to the table since the early days, and to me, are now the complete band. The songs are quite simple in structure, but it’s the layers that are added to fill out the sound, and the amazing rhythms, riffs and grooves that make them one of the most unique bands of the genre. They have their own sound and you know you are listening to Intronaut, which is great thing as they are able to stand out from the crowd.
Killing Birds is a monster opening track with all the trademark sound and tones. The Welding is just unbelievably awesome with its use of differing time signatures for nearly all of the instruments, plus the riff is so fat and huge, and the rhythm section is so tight. Steps is big, fat, and low with the riffage, and grooves hard – I love the harmony vocal. There is no widdly-flash-bastard soloing here, just superbly crafted pieces of modern metallic Prog goodness. A Sore Sight For Eyes is a beautiful piece with a perfect split of heavy and melody. Holy polyrhythms Batman!!! Milk Leg will have your brain scrambling for the abacus to keep time. Monster tune! The wonderfully named Harmonomicon is next, and is the most chill tune on the album. Back to monster riffage with Eventual, which does have a hint of Sabbath at the beginning. Blood From A Stone is all about the harmonies and melody. Close out track, The Way Down, is my favourite on the whole album. Lots of fat off time grooves and monster riffage to keep the toe tappin’ and the head a’ bangin’. The album that came after was perfect, and I love the way they keep growing and progressing as a band.
9.5/10 from The Grooveman.
