Thursday, September 1, 2011

Recursion - Transcendence in Impermanence

Kids grow up so fast these days: one day they're reading "Everybody Poops", and the next they're sweep-picking and teaching you about counterpoint.  Case in point, the uber-young Recursion from the "ultra-brutal" town Santa Cruz, the place that gave you skateboards, Decrepit Birth, and countless hipsters that wished they lived in San Francisco.  Seriously, these kids look like they just sprouted pubes, and now they have the chops to teach you how to play guitar!  Anyway, they've put out some damn decent Death Metal here that reminds me a lot of newer Cephalic Carnage, but a bit less "prog".  The riffs and songwriting quality here are superb: complex, tonal, and melodic.  My only real gripe here is the producion, as it's too dry and has a thin drum sound.  That's only minor, as it's still listenable.   As a band, they might need to tighten-up (as well as getting a better production job), but they have the potential to be major players in the world of Death Metal.   



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