ChangelingsWydawca 20 Buck SpinPremiera 2025-09-19PolandA step up in every regard from the band’s first album, ‘Changelings’ features an overload of angular guitar warfare, traditional Euro-thrash aggression with a modern resonance, rhythmic percussive seizures, and intricate basslines that make their intention deeply felt, not just following the guitar, but dialoguing with it in a way that offers a second melodic brain to the album.
In combination these elements thread seamlessly to give ‘Changelings’ its colorful and uncanny vision, as if John Carpenter had co-produced ‘Rust In Peace’ behind the iron curtain. It’s bristling with sci-fi paranoia, alien terror and a hint of Cold War menace.
While there’s more than enough primitive and traditional Thrash bands to go around, Species embraces the genre’s lesser-travelled road of forward-thinking virtuosity and inventive experimentation, showing there’s still plenty of fertile ground to seed new musical territory.
Nowhere is it more apparent than on 10-minute album closer ‘Biological Masterpiece’, where Species displays all its weapons; hyperspeed assaults, dystopian lulls and instrumental mastery, in a climatic saga beyond space and time. “Changelings” is that rare album nowadays that still has the ability to surprise in the most triumphant and euphoric way possible.
1. Inspirit Creation
2. The Essence
3. Waves of Time
4. Voyager
5. Born of Stitch and Flesh
6. Terror Unknown
7. Biological Masterpiece
Cover art and logo by Aleksandra Pawłowska
Band photos by Tomasz Kępka
A step up in every regard from the band’s first album, ‘Changelings’ features an overload of angular guitar warfare, traditional Euro-thrash aggression with a modern resonance, rhythmic percussive seizures, and intricate basslines that make their intention deeply felt, not just following the guitar, but dialoguing with it in a way that offers a second melodic brain to the album.