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Vastion - Closed Eyes to Nothing

They certainly had potential - 83%

Cronos12390, November 21st, 2007

It's interesting as a Georgian myself to hear of a tech death band hailing from my home state. Well, at least one that isn't Gnostic. Vastion pretty much called it quits not too long after this album, and I truly cannot conceive of why given the quality of this album. It's not perfect, to be sure, but it's still great for a debut. The songs on this album strike me as very focused on having an atmosphere rather than the general tech-death ethos of "Let's show the listener how many riffs we can play in three minutes", with a multitude of slower, dare I say doomy, sections during the middle/beginning/end of song.

The faster riffs remind me of melodic death metal when I hear many of them, focusing on some odd atmospheric melody than a rhythm. I cannot discern the level of technicality on the instruments; however, technicality in this type of music should be a thing that doesn't shove itself in your face in the first place. The drums appear to compete with the guitars at times in the area of audibility, which detracts a good bit from the sound.

The growls are reverbed a bit, which I don't usually like too much, but from what I hear they sound like Donny Hamilton (Ex-Viral Load) in regard to both his low end grunts and high end screams. The only thing that really detracts from this album is that the drums are a bit annoying to hear over the guitars, along with a few riffs here and there that don't quite make impact. Still, it's a fairly strong and original effort.