This is the 2nd by Intronaut, and they are one of my favourite bands in this genre. Prog metal is a very wide ranging, and broad tidy little box that reviewers put bands in when they haven’t got a clue how to categorize said band. Intronaut try to squeeze as much differing grooves and styles into one of their tunes as possible.
Their first album was a lot more hardcore. Some of those vibes spill over here, especially on Cavernous Den Of Shame which sounds very hardcore until you listen to the riffs and grooves, and the odd time signatures. This is a killer track with some superb bass and drum patterns. The intro to Prehistoricisms does indeed sound like dinosaurs tramping through your garden with the main groove of the piece being almost jazz metal. The most outstanding piece on the album is The Reptilian Brain, which takes up the whole of Side 4 and is split into five parts: Sleep, Eat, Shit, Fight, F…k – which just about sums up life today! The piece just builds from the opening Indian rhythms to the crushing deep riffs and grooves, and all points in between, epic stuff. I urge people to check the band out, they are a very rewarding listen.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
