This is the fourth album from US death metal band Artificial Brain.
From the band that gave us 2017’s Infrared Horizon and 2022’s Artificial Brain, Antillia comes screaming out of the heavens to bless the unbelievers with 42 minutes of complex devastation. Artificial Brain are back.
Artificial Brain have overhauled their lineup, and now boast a new vocalist, (from Inter Arma), and a new drummer. Both acquit themselves ferociously. The former in particular succeeds in stamping his identity on the music with his distinctive growls and screams.
This is music with innate character and personality. It’s dissonant/technical death metal, but individually styled, taking what it wants from wherever it wants, however it wants. Mostly, it wants to rage and burn, but alongside this it has the time for nuance, layers, and mood, as long as they serve the album’s apocalyptic goals.
Antillia is an album of textured speed and dark precision. Riven with writhing dissonance and shrouded by blackened venom, the tightly packed songs explode and implode with lethal determination, forcefully assaulting the airwaves with multidimensional aggression. Extraterrestrial melodies and void born atmospheres saturate the music, infusing its heart of darkness with otherworldly resplendence.
Antillia offers up a feast of multifaceted cosmic horror, and it would be foolish to not dig in. This is a high quality record, delivered by experienced hands that know exactly what they’re doing with their chosen metallic medium. Artificial Brain have brought us a new record that is exceptionally good.
Essential listening.
