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Faces

by CHAOS ENGINE RESEARCH

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Soulgrinder Zine #10

This is technical, robotic riffs, and inhuman barks and growls, with subtle, yet powerfully difficult, drumming. What i can say is, It hits you in such a way that you find yourself saying, “Wow, what did I just experience?”. Whether you like the album or not is a completely different story. Most of the songs might sound too similar but if you follow the beat of that hard hitting guitar sound, you’ll be able to tell the difference from each song. Also those tweeky sounding solos that come up help distinguish the songs from each other by creating a different atmospehere. When other bands try too hard to sound heavy they sound generic but Chaos Engine Research manages to only sound like themselves, creating their own.They have their own unique heavyness in their brand of extreme mathematicaly timed music. My grade for “Faces” is 85%, it’s an interesting album but I still kind of feel like I’m listening to the same song over and over after listening to the album a few times already. Not bad, good stuff though. Check them out if you really dig Meshuggah or Ion Dissonance as well!!

 

Pest Webzine

Wow, I would never think I will like this new CER album this much! I knew the band’s previous album, “The Legend Written By An Anonymous Spirit Of Silence” from 2014, but although not bad in its own path, it didn’t clicked with me much, it was closer to an Alternative Groove Metal than to Death Metal, but in these 8 years it seems the band has changed for the better despite I’m sure many thought of it as being defunct. The new material is way heavier in both production and composition, we’re dealing with a Groove Death Metal having bands like Soulfly, Machine Head, Slipknot or Ektomorf as primary influences, but now getting closer to the Groove Death Metal path (maybe a Progressive Groove Death Metal?) with heavy as fuck guitar riffs, intense, groovy and elaborated drumming, progressive, intricate passages and some melodic guitar touches here and there, a rabid vocal that a mile distance from what they used to have on the previous album, all in all a much heavier album, much more surprising and full of unexpected turns and twists, so much more on my taste. If the music sounds great, coupled with the expressive lyrics I tell you they give an amazing result and effect especially knowing that the album is a concept, and I have to quote the band here: “each track describes one of the characters – the titled “faces” are the ghosts of the past and memories, which are connected by the fact that they exerted a great influence on Chaos Engine Research members”. Although it’s a more brutal album, I still find it accessible enough to target a wider audience that it seems at first. Released as Digipak CD with 8 pages booklet featuring all lyrics, mandatory for the full enjoyment of the music inside. Impressive, very impressive!

9/10
Adrian

 

METAL CENTRE

Many years have passed since the last album. However, as the musicians announced a few years ago in the interview (www.metalcentre.pl), the second album is also conceptual “but unlike the debut, compositions do not form a chronological story, but are “novellas” connected by common ground. Each track describes one of the characters – the titled “faces” are the ghosts of the past and memories, which are connected by the fact that they exerted a great influence on Chaos Engine Research members.”…

In addition, there was a cosmetic change in the line-up and keeping of the contract with the Ukrainian Metal Scrap Records label.

And musically? It’s still powerful, maybe even more, also more aggressive. It’s still Groove Metal, with that characteristic lively and dynamic feeling, typical for PANTERA, SEPULTURA or MACHINE HEAD, but with a strong contemporary breath, with lowered guitar tuning and, for example, in the style of Djent or Mathcore riffing or clear Modern Death Metal creating riff structures, which in places reminds me quite strongly of GOJIRA…

And the overwhelming darkness, often expressed in guitar accents or solos, and even in slowing passages and arpeggios with distorted guitar sound.

The rhythm section is very mathematical, often complex, sometimes very complicated and always very powerful, regardless of the pace.

The vocals without redundant ado, but with growling and screaming, balancing the timbres between Death Metal and Deathcore, and even Black Metal. However, despite their colors, they are clear and the lyrics are quite understandable.

The atmosphere is quite crowded and crushing, it is very atmospheric at times, but always dark.

9.0/10
Pavel

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