Barbelith-Mirror Unveiled

The album cover really has an artistic feel to it, it's neatly done. Track 1. Beyond the Envelope of sleep- A tremendous opus of intense aggression runs over your ears, consuming your mind. As it continues it feels like just sheer noise. You can't really make out the timing, but when everything finally calms down for a moment you can begin to figure out the timing. The song busts back into this insane groove, if that's what you want to call it. The riffs are almost completely muffled and echoing, as are the vocals. The music moves to fast and the sound quality is so questionable that you can barely make out anything concrete. Drum parts here and there can be heard at times, as well as an echoing lead guitar melody.The song finally dies on the drawn out from the feedback of a recording microphone that just fades away.

Track 2. Astral Plane- A somewhat muffled clean melody starts us off to a thriving melody here. The powerful drums, turns into a distant and massive transfusion of fuzzed distortion? Things are quite distant here in the mix again. The echoing, muffled quality. Distinct parts that can be made out? The clean melody and the drumming, which are decent. For a single moment you could here some clear crunching distortion but it is immediately consumed by the noise of the track. Vocals are a bitter distant roar that echos to the point of nausea. For a moment a halfway entertaining guitar part is summoned above the mix for your ears to enjoy and then it becomes lost again. After much craziness the song comes to a slow and subtle point where the music is somewhat intelligible again. I do enjoy the drumming and clean guitar thoroughly though. The madness swells up and returns. You really have to dig in and listen to the music at a concentrated pace to begin to even understand it. The melody that you can make out, seems interesting yet complex. Though sorry to say I am not a fan of this sort of quality of recording, to me the recording quality echoes too much and is horrible.

Track 3. Black Hole of Fractured Reflections- A sound creep's up upon you, with a sheer will of a impending vile doom. A very eclectic bass line though muffled plays. The crisp drums dangle their powerful presence in the mix. The echoing melodies waiver about, and not in a good way, other unknown melodies play. A very muffled guitar and vocals enter the song, I am not impressed.

The music becomes such a massive mess that you can barely make anything out at all, well except for the snare. The growling vocals proceed about like a hungry animal in the night. The nonsense chimes on for quite awhile, you wish, you beg for an END. Complex guitar melodies can actually be heard, they are enjoyable. The music becomes so muffled again you lose whatever enjoyment you found, the drums are the lone consistent great presence here, as well as the occasional clean guitar riffs here, though they are muffled too. The track begins to become very watered down. Nothing here moves you.

Track 4. Reverse Fall- A heavy crashing thunder begins the ending of this album. Very briefly you can make out a halfway intelligent groove with interesting melody, but it slowly fades into the chaos. The vocals stammer about with their inaudible screams of violence and pain. The drums have been the lone consistent and powerful presence throughout this album. Things become very chaotic. The music moves along like this for a while at it's crazy pace which sounds like pure noise, it finally dies again on the sounds of feedback from the microphone is my guess.

No, I did not enjoy this music, horrible recording quality. The drums and the occasional clean guitar are all that was really somewhat clear, they were decent, the drums are the BEST part of this album. The rest of the music sucks of an order of banshees that only dead men speak of. When you try to sit and listen to this music its mostly muffled and confusing, you get excited as the ending gets closer that you don't have to listen to this SHIT. NO THIS IS NOT METAL. No where close.

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