2010-03-14
I will start with the pleasure of seeing more waves of Russian metal bands. After years of a general music ban, and heavy metal especially, it seems that the mysterious Russian scene has finally reached its European neighbors. The music is generally updated, high production quality with ambitious artists willing to show the global metal scene what they are made of! Now a cut to
Instant Suppression...
The band formed in 2005 in the city of Rostov On Don. They have established a modern fan base while touring the country. This is their first LP, and it seems that they are more than willing to keep up with what they call "Modern Progressive Metal". It stands for a variety of musical combinations, but the truth is that it has nothing in it. A collection of wide influences is decorating their
MySpace wall, and can also be heard in their music. This album is produced well, and you can definitely hear that these musicians are professionals with their instruments. But when you put all of that together, you get a bad mix of metal genres. It sounds like they are trying too much to prove that they are making something new and original.
From the first song of Nation Domain it is easy to notice the blend of genres. There are offbeats, groove riffs, clean (the Emo type) and growl types of singing and some girl that sings the opera, Nightwish style. Oh, and tons of synth, everywhere.
I think that I just check marked most of the heavy metal genres known to mankind. Basically, it sounds like disharmonic cacophony. A song will start in one direction, and then morph itself into many other things without the simplest logic connection. Ok, they are not the first ones to do this.
Orphaned Land has been doing it for years now, but at least in their songs, there is some logic in the progression.
I admit that I'm conservative about metal, but on the other hand I gave this band a chance, even though the only copy of this album I got was from a link in my Email.
No carton box, not to mention plastic box (I thought that those days were over and every 14 year old can make a CD and ship it anywhere). So it's very "progressive" and wrapped with a nice production, but I recommend the band to choose a clearer genre, stick to it, and inject elements from other genres along the way.
Dolev Zaharony
