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This band plays a mix of metal styles like you never heard. They mix death, grind, black, melodic death, metalcore, and grooving stoner metal (best of each) into a song, and blast it into your head.
During the course of any one song you can hear influences from Darkthrone, to Berzerker, to Dying Fetus, and Arch Enemy. All of this without sounding like total goofs.
The vocals keep switching between ultra low gutteral growls, grindcore yells, and black metal screams. The drumming is pretty good (technically), but the sound is drowned in the mix. The guitars are crisp and loud. There is no bass, but you don’t notice it.
There are so many random melodies popping up in every song that it’s impossible to clearly say which of the songs stand out…

Ill give a detailed description of one track to give you an idea of the crazyness.

Cephalectomy - Upon Winged Elemental Crests:
Starts off with a grind riff, the breaks down into a stepping death metal song (a-la Cryptopsy’s None So Vile), before speeding up into a grind/death song early Dying Fetus style. Moves on into a somewhat thrashy/stoner riff (think of a death metal Bad Acid Trip), and then into a The Locust style grindcore bridge, which is repeated several times throughout the song. After that, we hear a melodic, almost epic guitar solo, Gothenburg style. After that the song is a brutal version of most Gothenburg bands like Arch Enemy, (early) In Flames, and (early) Soilwork. After that the song randomly changes back into the stepping death riff. Another random change to a jazzy interlude that could be just as easily placed in a modern rock (emo/pop punk/rock whatever they call it today) song, and then ends with some death/grind riffs and screams.

It is very hard to describe Cephlectomy’s music. It seems self contradictory, but each riff change is pretty much at random times, and different styles, after you hear it, it starts to sound so amazing, that you wonder how come Cephalectomy are not the biggest Canadian metal band.