My first honest impression on this album was simple “nice compositions, impressive technique and interesting song patterns, but this is not a fun record!” I know I might be playing it safe, is just that “The Conductor's Departure” is an extremely technical display of death metal and little “passion” on the songs.
Technical is the key word on this review; the album is packed with great and precise guitar lines overlapping each other, creating a solid mood of progression that just keeps growing as the album progresses.
Anata has recorded an album for fans of “unconventional” metal, meaning that the album can be placed among those that need to be listen more than 10 times in order to understand the complexity within each an every song; perhaps 10 spins will not be enough for all of those that can’t really appreciate the level of musicianship within this production due to the fact that it may get a little boring after not finding some “digestible” riffs that will make you get closer to the album.
“The Conductor's Departure” is death metal no doubt about that, maybe Anata is just trying too hard when it comes to placing lyrics on the songs, because it sure sounds like they are more comfortable just playing the instrumental pieces than your basic vocal based tracks.
Believe me when I say that this band is good, they are great musicians, every track is heavy and interesting; inventive riffs soar through every track as well as a great drum display of speed and quality; is just that they sacrifice some “fun” or aggressiveness in order to achieve a higher level of technicality, transforming “The Conductor's Departure” in a showcase of knowledge and not a great technical death metal album; I say this mainly because after listening to the whole production you end up exhausted, exhausted because you have been trying to get every track, and as jaw dropping as their composition might be is just not an album for metal fans is more a training for aspiring metal musicians.
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