One of the more interesting “effects” after my first encounter with this album was how surprisingly tight these guys manage to write each song, adding so much elements, rhythms, and tempos to a few minutes of time on each track; making you feel only on the third piece as if you had already gone through at least seven songs… that variation, complexity and “plethora” of sounds helps and hurts what could have been with a little more self control a great technical death album.

Every single song has at least 4 or 5 extra riffs that could have easily became another song, or maybe they should have been removed from certain pieces in order to develop the main idea to its fullest potential, instead of cramming so much into so little space, maybe is not even the amount of elements on each song, but the length of the tracks, reaching the longest one close to 6 minutes and 30 seconds… it sounds long for a death metal track, but believe me with the amount of ideas and tempo changes you at least need another 2 minutes to change this song from a confusing piece into a truly amazing song… the talent was there, the time was not.

Destructural is heavy as fuck, thanks to the almost industrial sounding guitars and machine gun speed on behalf of Mr. Portuguez on the drum kit. Mr. Aguilar on vocals is not as surprising as the solos or progressive guitar lines in “Parabola”, but he brings that “underground” grindcore like singing voice into the mix, that could have been “clear out” a bit, but instead is muddy, deep and cover by the nice guitars; and that’s not a band thing since that department is the one that pulls Azterion from a mere “rookie” into a “diamond in the ruff “ kind of situation.

Destructural is one of those albums that wanted to show it all, and do it all, and that’s exactly what ended up hurting these guys, is more than clear just how talented they are, adding progg almost “neo-classical” guitar lines in some songs, while keeping it raw and aggressive, and not to mention their very nice clear, melodic segments that show a deeper understanding of what you can do with metal and its atmosphere, but they did cram to much into such a little album.