After listening to a great album “Occult Medicine” I was looking forward to listening at this record, I thought that they would perhaps go more technical or maybe add more “understandable rhythms” to the production, well that wasn’t the case, “Unhealthy Opera” one more time tries to play in two different fields at the same time, they try to be heavy and raw as a classic death metal outfit, and they also like to complicate the songs with intricate tempos and melodies, leaving you at the end of each song confused and frustrated, but always telling yourself “man this guys are good” still you can’t really remember what just happened.

The album is brutal, heavy as fuck, perfect guitars, monstrous drums, and a very clear bass, like I told you the songs are a continuous pounding as well as an amalgam of riffs and solos, sometimes is just too much, the songs are way too over written (shit I don’t even know if that’s a term, but I hope you get the point), they place too many things on some songs that other wise would have been great, I guess they cant help it, these guys are amazing playing their instruments, but then why not go technical all the way and forget the rest, or find a formula that will keep the progressives of the instruments on the songs and still manage to have a comprehensible flow.

There are non the less three songs that actually managed to posses the right balance, “Avatar Ceremony” with super fast double bass and a sharp guitar displaying some great solos, the thing about the song is that you don’t have to be a musician to get it, you can actually tell what’s the chorus is in here, great song, balanced and heavy as hell. “Horror from the Sea” has a bigger technical tendency than “Avatar…” but the flow of the song is focus on a heavy and catchy rhythm not in the complexity that the guitars can provide, still the guitars come out as the front and center element on the track. “…Of Madness” is very similar to “Horror…” similar in the way technicality and “groove” fuse together to create a headbanger’s dream.

“Signs” the bonus track is pretty much the way I tough this band was going to continue its growing process after “Occult Medicine”, melodic and even with the addition of clean vocals but keeping all that heaviness and brutality from their technical death metal; well they didn’t so perhaps for Yyrkoon the path is different, we are just going to have to wait and see what do this incredible musicians decide to come up with next time.