XOTH
"Exogalactic"
DawnbreedRecords 2023
If you browse the information appearing on the pages
of Apocalyptic Rites, you have already had a chance to read a little about
Xoth's music on the occasion of the appearance of their second full-length
album. It's been a while since its release (4 years to be exact), so the
group's musicians decided it was high time to attack with another album, which
happened in the first days of November this year. "Exogalactic" is
therefore, in a straight line, a continuation and development of the style that
the band took at the very beginning of its crusade. Thus, on the third Xoth album
we once again delve into the world of Technical Death/Thrash Metal with rather
modern overtones. Everything on this album works like in a Swiss watch. The
drums parts are excellent, and the expressive bass draws almost mathematically
accurate patterns. The guitars smash with razor-cutting riffs, and their duels,
as well as excellent solo parts, are the driving force of this album. Well, and
then there are the two vocals, which fit almost perfectly into this technical
thicket of sounds. The Seattle quartet's work is still filled with melodic
textures as well as progressive touches, but compared to
"Interdimensional...", the melodies that fill "Exogalactic"
are a whole hell of a lot more venomous and saturated with aggression, and the
progressive parts have no small amount of claw and power. You won't find
unnecessary banal fillers here, as it sometimes happened in the past, or
instrumental joyous efflorescence blunting the blades of the songs. Xoth's new
album is a tightly compacted monolith of technical sounds with a really high
destructive force, which can plow through the cerebral dens in a fucking
concrete way. That's why I fucking love this material and I'm definitely going
to make sure it's in my overflowing collection. Definitely the best album
Xoth's discography to date (at least according to, me). I hope that in the
future the band will continue to walk the path on which it has, so to speak,
embarked on its third full-length, for it is the only right one. In conclusion,
I will tell you something funny. I heard "Exogalactic" in two
versions. The first, which I received, was strangely shallow. However, the band
diagnosed the problem in time and, probably a week before its release, sent a
remastered version again, which gave the music a proper power and allowed it to
shine to its fullest...and very fucking well! So let me repeat once again. A
very good album with technical death metal.
Hatzamoth
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