Neuraxis - Asylon
In 1997 when these Canucks unleashed their debut album, Imagery, on an unsuspecting underground, I thought they were the absolute shit. The bees knees, his legs and his arms. In league with countrymates Cryptopsy, if not better. Just a savage technical onslaught of brutal Death Metal with guttural vocals that was actually memorable. Fourteen years, five albums, and virtually no original members later, the band still have hella chops, but seem to have forgotten that brutal/memorable part of the equation. Each album seems to get a bit more lightweight, a little safer, a little more bent towards the mainstream area of the Metal spectrum. Don’t get me wrong, 2001’s A Passage Into Forlorn and 2002’s Truth Beyond… were great records, but with Asylon the band is almost completely sterile. Basically 40 minutes of unmemorable melodic Thrash licks with typically boring Tech lyrics. Example: “Suddenly, deception appears as a malformation to the being. Unknown to suffering, the metabolism into crisis…” Excuse me, but what the fuck did you just say?? Maybe it would help if I could pick newest singer Alex LeBlanc’s non-threatening harsh vocals out of a pantheon of Hot Topic Metal bands, but I can’t. The fire is just gone.
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