After more than ten years, Aversed offers a first album.
Created in 2009 in the United States under the name of Aversion, the band changes its name to avoid confusion. After two EPs, Sungwoo Jeong (guitar/vocals), Alden Marchand (guitar), Jeff Saltzman (drums, Unflesh), Haydee Irizarry (vocals, Carnivora, Widows Rite) and Peter Albert de Reyna (bass, Seven Spires, ex-Unflesh) bring us Impermanent.
Between Melodic and Progressive Death Metal, the band offers a massive instrumental and howlings that melt to a soft but intense clean voice. Natsukashi, the first song, plays on a contrast created by a seizing melody and a piercing rhythmic. Fastness is also an asset of the song, letting the singer the opportunity to offer a softer chorus, like on Close My Eyes. The song picks into Melodic Death Metal roots to offer a solid composition, which is also the recipe on the heavy and dissonant Laboratory. The song is massive, allowing organized headbang sessions before bringing a seizing blackness, including in the final break. Impermanent, the eponymous song, melts the band’s rhythmic with majestic influences, that wonderfully melt with this unfurling rage, but also with softer parts.
Abandoned offers a clean sounding introduction before a melting between aggressive Death and Melodic Prog influences with clean but intense vocals, that gives the band a personality, like on Solar Sea, a song of which quietness will be quickly broken. The song is one of the softest and of the more violent at the same time, mixing diversified influences that are very catchy in the end, as Malaise, a very changing song is, alternating the different parts of its rhythmic with a frightening easiness. Spiraling highlights technicality, while infusing it with a palpable wrath, but also catchy tones and piercing leads. The band spreads an impressive sound weaponry before Nightshade, the last song. Melancholy is melted to groovy and moving parts, that will wreak havoc in the crowd before enchanting us with a soft chorus.
Aversed offers an interesting contrast between melodic rage and enchanting Prog. Impermanent is a rich, changing and however very catchy album, that promises nice neck movements!
85/100