EXUL
The Australian extreme progressive metallers, count 20 years since they were created, with four quality and interesting albums.
This year’s album titled “Exul”, exiled in Latin, comes after a six-year wait, after 2017’s “Urn”, to remind us what quality Ne Obliviscaris means.
Anyone who started listening to “Exul”, I think will be stuck with the diversity of the band’s musical expression, which is not condensed but interspersed in the great flow of compositions that the band wisely did not limit, but let develop until the listener is full.
This is not just talent, it is technique, it is understanding, it is perception.
The use of the violin is tasteful and artistic. The two types of vocals, clean and brutal, blend very well. I’m crazy to hear the bass so forward, the guitars are indescribable and the drums are booming.
Mark Lewis, who is in charge of the production, has understood how these types of bands should sound, without limiting creativity and expression.
The album is released by Season of Mist.
“Exul”, is a full album in all respects. It is an album that will easily find an audience to love and appreciate it as it should.
It is a joy to listen to bands like Ne Obliviscaris to remind us that the imagination in the composition of music never dries up.
Spyros Tribos
8,5/10
“Exul” tracklist:
1. Equus 12:13
2. Misericorde I – As the Flesh Falls 07:33
3. Misericorde II – Anatomy of Quiescence 09:22
4. Suspyre 10:09
5. Graal 08:53
6. Anhedonia 03:43
total: 51:53
