I couldn’t really believe some people, when I heard them say that this album was bad, and that new singer Covan was terrible for the band, I even read someplace some idiot comparing “Organic Hallucinosis” to Machine Head, I mean what kind of an idiot can compare Decapitated to Machine Head, and is not that I dislike MC is just that there is a continent, an ocean, and the entire Amazonic jungle of distance between those two bands.

Ok on to the review, “Organic Hallucinosis” is a modern tank with GPS, anti aircraft missiles and a mighty cannon, if Decapitated was thick and technical for you before, now is that plus a little “technology” added to the mix, with more “metallic” sounds the album comes to establish the Polish as one of the best death metal bands this year; the sort of electric metallic coated drums, give some extra force to every song, creating a unique attack on your senses, don’t think for a moment that the band has gone and became an industrial outfit, no they just added some “color” to the drums layered on the record.

The songs have a very unique way to carry each tempo, sometimes stopping abruptly to introduce a different and even more brutal riff, a tendency displayed from the start, but diminished in “Revelation of Existence (the trip)” the song does have those amazing technical changes that Decapitated have us use to, but in this song they show a more conscious temperament for the melody and catchiness of the track, making the song unforgettable.

There are bands that go to ridiculous limits to demonstrate that they can play technical death metal, ridiculous because in the process they forget about brutality and melodies, two characteristics that make an album a great album, but not Decapitated, they are technical, clean, heavy and lethal; their new singer certainly doesn’t have the most “typical” death growl, but his brutal hardcore approach gives the band a wider field of possibilities, forcing the guitars to sound clean and the drums hard and intense.

“Organic Hallucinosis” will not let you go, until your neck is broken and your ears are bleeding, certainly one of the best releases of the year.