Psychonaut 4
Have A Nice Trip
Talheim Records
It`s n an older Psychonaut 4 album, re-released with a new art work by Talheim Records in 2018 (6 years after original release).
Songs on this debut album can sound quite sensational, just as Psychonaut often does with their music. The band sings in their native language in most of their songs ,and what I heard are deeply emotional vocals; from feeling of despair, loss, fear, tragedy to desperation and distress. High tone, black metal screams, spoken monologues, or mix of melodic&harsh singing is all what sound quite quintessential for the style of this Georgian band.
Psychonaut 4 plays music based on black metal, but musically, they mainly dive towards the avant-garde – niche black metal art. Album has songs where the music is more aggressive, slightly progressive or even melodic, but melodies do not make me feel like there is happiness in it (exception is the most melodic songs of the album called Hero(N)).Song-writing is closer to black metal, and it is played with some depressive musical substance to it (I do not say it`s bad), which are some of those slowly played guitar riffs or guitar harmonies. In the song Antihuman [Drug=Друг], their vocalists sings like the evil of the world has fallen on his head (so scary), but what I want to write is, there is a very nice musical change in this song where you can hear some folk music while the singer still sounds like he is agonizing in pits of hell (illusions and nightmares of the mind) - it just sounds worryingly amazing. If you like in depth black metal music, Have A Nice Trip will hits in those emotional strings many times, because this band plays music as if it were part of their biological nerve that hurts the most. And yet, there is a simple musical beauty in a way Psychonaut 4 play their songs, it comes from avant-garde which they mix with pure black metal music, to which, few times, they welcomed some progressive elements - like a complex guitar work (not too much). I have to write that prog.metal and avant-garde get along quite well in my opinion, which is what this band has exposed in their music, maybe only in 15% on this album. Music has a short, chaotic musical periods, album pace is in the middle - you know, they have those few faster and slower moments in music as well.
My favourite tracks is groovy (there`s plenty of guitar groove in their songs) and melodic song Overdose Was the Best Way to Die. Track called ყლე is keeping its black metal guitar rhythms and nice dynamics tight, and I think you would like it for those la, la ,la - very cool vocal moments in it.
When comes to music attractiveness, I`d put the album somewhere in the middle-among other this type of records/bands, which are probably the minority in metal community, because of their unique musical approach. So, it`s good album (70 mins. long) but still not that great.
Songs on this debut album can sound quite sensational, just as Psychonaut often does with their music. The band sings in their native language in most of their songs ,and what I heard are deeply emotional vocals; from feeling of despair, loss, fear, tragedy to desperation and distress. High tone, black metal screams, spoken monologues, or mix of melodic&harsh singing is all what sound quite quintessential for the style of this Georgian band.
Psychonaut 4 plays music based on black metal, but musically, they mainly dive towards the avant-garde – niche black metal art. Album has songs where the music is more aggressive, slightly progressive or even melodic, but melodies do not make me feel like there is happiness in it (exception is the most melodic songs of the album called Hero(N)).Song-writing is closer to black metal, and it is played with some depressive musical substance to it (I do not say it`s bad), which are some of those slowly played guitar riffs or guitar harmonies. In the song Antihuman [Drug=Друг], their vocalists sings like the evil of the world has fallen on his head (so scary), but what I want to write is, there is a very nice musical change in this song where you can hear some folk music while the singer still sounds like he is agonizing in pits of hell (illusions and nightmares of the mind) - it just sounds worryingly amazing. If you like in depth black metal music, Have A Nice Trip will hits in those emotional strings many times, because this band plays music as if it were part of their biological nerve that hurts the most. And yet, there is a simple musical beauty in a way Psychonaut 4 play their songs, it comes from avant-garde which they mix with pure black metal music, to which, few times, they welcomed some progressive elements - like a complex guitar work (not too much). I have to write that prog.metal and avant-garde get along quite well in my opinion, which is what this band has exposed in their music, maybe only in 15% on this album. Music has a short, chaotic musical periods, album pace is in the middle - you know, they have those few faster and slower moments in music as well.
My favourite tracks is groovy (there`s plenty of guitar groove in their songs) and melodic song Overdose Was the Best Way to Die. Track called ყლე is keeping its black metal guitar rhythms and nice dynamics tight, and I think you would like it for those la, la ,la - very cool vocal moments in it.
When comes to music attractiveness, I`d put the album somewhere in the middle-among other this type of records/bands, which are probably the minority in metal community, because of their unique musical approach. So, it`s good album (70 mins. long) but still not that great.
Tracklist:
1 Intro
2 Parasite
3 Pseudo
4 Have a Nice Trip
5 Overdose Was the Best Way to Die
6 Intro
7 Lethargic Dialogue
8 Drop by Drop
9 Hate Parade
10 Antihuman [Drug=Друг]
11 ყლე
12 Hero(N)
1 Intro
2 Parasite
3 Pseudo
4 Have a Nice Trip
5 Overdose Was the Best Way to Die
6 Intro
7 Lethargic Dialogue
8 Drop by Drop
9 Hate Parade
10 Antihuman [Drug=Друг]
11 ყლე
12 Hero(N)
Review by Slawek Migacz
Added: 10.09.2020
Added: 10.09.2020
