This is the debut album from US death metallers Fabricant.
Fabricant play a non-standard form of death metal that combines elements of the technical, progressive, and dissonant styles. Across 43 minutes Drudge to the Thicket impresses with its grasp of complexity and creative intensity.
Drudge to the Thicket is a carefully curated journey into chaos and order, concurrently existing in a melange of intricate extremity. The songs on this release contain all manner of influences and ingredients, from the coldly dissonant to the warmly melodic.
Fabricant’s technical embrace is inclusive of a range of ideas and sounds, all delivered in a torrent of progressive complexity. An obsession of labyrinthine riffs, insectile bass, and vertiginous drumming, Fabricant’s material offers a bewildering and dazzling display of convoluted songwriting and winding musicality. The music unfolds in jagged fits and starts, twisting thought the airwaves like a slithering multidimensional being.
Drudge to the Thicket is an impenetrable fortress of dissonance and aggressive technicality. It’s a whirlwind of bright leads, sparkling sentient bass, and inhuman percussion. It’s an inventive and personal foray into the realms of atypical death metal, and, ultimately, a rewarding and satisfying listen. Its circuitous and tangled charms are not for the uninitiated, but if you’re an explorer of dissonance and technicality given death metal form, then you’ll want to visit the world of Fabricant.
Highly recommended.
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