Catalyst
The Great Purpose Of The Lords
Great Dane Records
First, I wanted to play the album a few times before writing anything about it, because, from few samples of their music that I heard before, this one seemed to be very intense, a catalyst of what was to come, a death metal album that was promising something cataclysmic...And indeed, it is.
After too long and boring intro (Omnisicient Bobies), the song - An Unworthy Covenant has started off to set things properly for me. The track is built of many riffs, tempo changes, technical guitar passages, but also some melodic moments. They keep the music range from very brutal to very fast and the songs arrangements are often demanding. Drummer plays a lot of ultra-fast blast beats and vocalist possesses very aggressive style of guttural singing. This song is over 10 minutes long and Catalyst does not give you many opportunities to take a breath because their death metal is mostly (but not only) galloping as hell which quite fits my needs I have to admit. On the way, there is an instrumental song First Light but next few tracks are already shorter than An Unworthy Covenant, have even more technical but still very fast approach, music is tighter composed and they just deliver condensed brutality and fury in songs like The Purpose Of The Lords and Demophobia, which sound pretty powerful. The energy of death metal spreads on. Catalyst is the band that skilfully merges traditional death metal with technicality of guitar playing and they often brings mix of catchiness, melodies and atmospherics (Celestial Resurrection) to songs which hook my ears on their music for good. Occasionally, just like in songs In Mist We Are born and The Empire That Failed, among death metal vocals they use clean singing which put music of Catalyst in another perspective. An example that on this album you can hear some heavier songs are tracks From The Last Sunset and For Whom Summons The Dead.
Throughout the whole record Catalyst serves superb guitar solos which in combination with complexity of the music and up tempos the album just sounds magnificently catastrophic.
If you are a fan of bands like Obscura, Psycroptic, Formis then Catalyst is the band that urgently needs your attention. In my mind, it`s very good –all kind death album and those French guys have it in genes to surprise me by their music.
Tracklist:
1 Omnisicient Bobies
2 An Unworthy Covenant
3 The Purpose Of The Lords
4 First Light
5 In Mist We Are Born
6 Demophobia
7 Celestial Resurrection
8 From The Last Sunset
9 To Chaos
10 The Empire That Failed
11 The Council
12 For Whom Summons The Dead
After too long and boring intro (Omnisicient Bobies), the song - An Unworthy Covenant has started off to set things properly for me. The track is built of many riffs, tempo changes, technical guitar passages, but also some melodic moments. They keep the music range from very brutal to very fast and the songs arrangements are often demanding. Drummer plays a lot of ultra-fast blast beats and vocalist possesses very aggressive style of guttural singing. This song is over 10 minutes long and Catalyst does not give you many opportunities to take a breath because their death metal is mostly (but not only) galloping as hell which quite fits my needs I have to admit. On the way, there is an instrumental song First Light but next few tracks are already shorter than An Unworthy Covenant, have even more technical but still very fast approach, music is tighter composed and they just deliver condensed brutality and fury in songs like The Purpose Of The Lords and Demophobia, which sound pretty powerful. The energy of death metal spreads on. Catalyst is the band that skilfully merges traditional death metal with technicality of guitar playing and they often brings mix of catchiness, melodies and atmospherics (Celestial Resurrection) to songs which hook my ears on their music for good. Occasionally, just like in songs In Mist We Are born and The Empire That Failed, among death metal vocals they use clean singing which put music of Catalyst in another perspective. An example that on this album you can hear some heavier songs are tracks From The Last Sunset and For Whom Summons The Dead.
Throughout the whole record Catalyst serves superb guitar solos which in combination with complexity of the music and up tempos the album just sounds magnificently catastrophic.
If you are a fan of bands like Obscura, Psycroptic, Formis then Catalyst is the band that urgently needs your attention. In my mind, it`s very good –all kind death album and those French guys have it in genes to surprise me by their music.
Tracklist:
1 Omnisicient Bobies
2 An Unworthy Covenant
3 The Purpose Of The Lords
4 First Light
5 In Mist We Are Born
6 Demophobia
7 Celestial Resurrection
8 From The Last Sunset
9 To Chaos
10 The Empire That Failed
11 The Council
12 For Whom Summons The Dead
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 13.06.2019
Added: 13.06.2019