CD Reviews – Some Sema Stengah

If in case you’ve the cojones to name yourselves after a MESHUGGAH observe, the least we’re in a position to do is offer you a shot. Fortuitously, whereas exhibiting a clear debt to the aforementioned legends, STENGAH‘s debut album does excess of merely emulate one other individual’s system. This French band have a sound that has clearly been meticulously crafted: these all-important versatile, polyrhythmic riffs are a primary part of the overwhelming majority of those songs, in spite of everything, nonetheless they’re faraway from being the precept event. “Soma Sema” combines these mutant djent tropes with a great deal of post-metal squall, elegant progressive detours and moments of outright metal fury. The tip end result’s incessantly exhilarating.

“At The Behest of Origins” erupts with pure percussive venom, sooner than the first of those stuttering grooves casts its spell and it turns into apparent that STENGAH are following their instincts and letting the ideas stream. Like every one amongst these songs, “At The Behest…” is artfully constructed and nearly overburdened with refined dynamics, and however it’s also blessed with riff after lethal riff and as a minimum one unapologetic, neck-threatening, heavy metal pay-off. Present single “Above Humanity” does it as soon as extra: the lurching, spherical riffs, the angular breakdowns, the scabrous syncopation, all of it unmistakably acquainted and however fizzing with freshness on the same time. Every “Swoon” and “Lumen” elaborate on the equivalent idea, with flurries of ferociously actual riffing colliding with post-metal atmospherics, disarming volleys of melody and a prevailing waft of sorrow.

An obvious centerpiece, “Message in Reminiscences” stretches STENGAH‘s remit even extra for a six-minute storm of imperious melody and fidgeting syncopation, with vocalist Nicolas Queste switching from pensive croon to barbarous bark, palpably inhabiting every change of texture or mood. Equally startling, “He and the Sea” constructs a glitched-out web of staccato riffs that’s as insistent and plain as the large physique of water of its title, sooner than morphing proper right into a slow-drift mirage of crestfallen calm, subsequently hurtling in the direction of a jaw-shattering, blood ‘n’ thunder climax. Heaviest of the lot by a methods, the closing “Offering” swings wildly between bittersweet, post-everything clangor and juddering, post-you-know-who riffing, armed with a chorus of considerable vastness.

In fairness, you do know the place you stand with STENGAH. The band placed on their influences on their sleeves with pleasure, nonetheless as well as they’ve the creativeness — and the cojones — to do uncommon, attention-grabbing and new points with them. A debut album of good distinction, “Soma Sema” looks like the start of but another metal revolution.

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