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Death metal is such a limitless genre. You can do whatever you'd like. It can be over the top technical or slow. Brutal or insane and it's all so good. When we made "Visions of Death" it just came out with a natural old school-ish vibe and that's great, but our newer material has a much more modern technical vibe. I love how death metal has evolved.
For me, death metal should be heavy as fuck, brutal (which doesn't necessarily mean "fast"), atmospheric and evil. If the "evil" thing is not there, you can't label yourself death metal, that's a fact. I'm so fucking close minded when it comes to metal music... I listen to the SAME hard rock, heavy, thrash, doom, death and black metal that I used to listen to 15 years ago.
Experimental metal from Rijeka, Croatia greatly influenced by world music (Asia, in particular) and groove/thrash, math metal and biting hardcore. Rife with influences from Mr Bungle, Fantomas and Mike Patton in its general insanity and vocal styles while as far as the actual metal is concerned influence from Dead Horse, Dillinger Escape Plan, Napalm Death, late ‘90s Sepultura and Machine Head are easily identifiable. Vocalist El Cathodralico is nuts behind the mic switching between screams, grunts, shrieks and ethnic vocals multiple times in each song. Guitarist Juan Pable Pe De Rigad and bassist Senor José are the true stars of this record. Drummer Digitus seems to have been heavily influenced by Mastodon’s Brann Dailor. Each track is a crazed journey through the absurd, the theatrical and the demented. Recorded at Dead Horse Studio with Uros Vele and mastered by Mario Juncic and Uros Vele "Sonic Gastronomy" has a crystal clear production that can compete with any major label band. The freak artwork by Morka is fantastic and greatly enhances the oddness of this record. World music, angry metal, experimental music and electronics all come together in "Sonic Gastronomy" which is probably the most adventurous record you’re bound to hear.http://www.moonleerecords.comcomment itWouter 8
