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VÖ: 2008
Genre: Spaced Out Tech Death / Math
Label: Napalm Records
Herkunftsland: USA
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Tracklist:
1. Undead Auditory Emanations
2. Occult Rites Of The Uumpluuy
3. Still Image Symphomy
4. Imprisoned Within Duality
5. Hiding Behind The House Of Mirrors
6. Chrysalis
7. Interstellar Inversion If Consciousness
8. Space Coffin Hallucinations
9. Untitled
Spielzeit: 60:00
Zitat:Sometimes you see an album cover and just hope that the music inside matches the imagery. In this case, the graphic of five masked phantoms, convened like some interdimensional alien tribunal, could have just been another slapped-on gimmick - but thankfully, it”s the perfect visual for one of the more harrowing and hypnotic tech-death albums I”ve heard in awhile.Quelle: teethofthedivine.com
At first, Gigan seems like classic Carcass being delivered by The Dillinger Escape Plan: spastic, frantic and unusual riffs delivered with devious, mathematical precision. And yes, we”ve heard that sound before - but I can”t remember anything quite this psychedelic. And not in the usual sense, either.
There are no overt nods to 70s prog-rock here - no Hammond organs, no lilting clean vocals and no graceful, expansive jams or reveries. This is more like a bad acid trip - dense, jagged and constantly mutating, like being trapped inside a kaleidoscope of broken glass. In fact, the one band that keeps popping into my head as I listen to this isn”t tech-death or grind at all - it”s USBM act Averse Sefira, whose seemingly chaotic, shapeshifting black metal (particularly Tetragrammatical Astygmata) eventually reveals a more deliberate structural methodology.
Like that album, each of the tracks on The Order of the False Eye features inventive, fractured riffs scrambling over drums that seem like machine-gun spray, but are actually an artfully controlled nexus of ricochets. And luckily, it”s not all wankery and pyrotechnics - Gigan seems to know that this type of mathematic assault can become tiring, so they shift dimensions at the right time, taking the listener into a fat, elastic groove (”Undead Auditory Emanations”) or a haunting dreamscape (”Occult Rites of the Uumphuy”). That way, when the geometric psychosis comes screaming back in, it”s all the more jarring.
This is perfectly displayed by the aptly titled “Hiding Behind the House of Mirrors,” an 8-minute nightmare which acts as the album”s centerpiece. “Mirrors” opens with a undulating cloud of feedback phantasmagoria, then explodes into a mantra of stuttering math-metal. Halfway through, things get really weird - a peculiar, contorted riff shrieking over a more subdued, wandering ambient guitar line below. It comes off like Mithras as interpreted by Blut Aus Nord, and it”s one of the more mesmerizing and memorable metal passages I”ve heard in a long time.
Despite all the chaos, I actually found this far more listenable than something like Cephalic Carnage or Odious Mortem, whose compositions always seem to have lots of great bits, but never gel as compelling songs, let alone as albums. And true, Gigan is not easy listening, but it”s worth the invested effort. Definitely not for everyone, but highly recommended for tech-death fans or anyone who wants something really challenging and captivating.
Meine Wertung: 8.5/10
Die Band wurde u.a. von 2 ehemaligen Mitgliedern von Hate Eternal gegründet.
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