Something’s happening at Entheos.
A year and a half after their third album, Navene Koperweis (all instruments, ex-Animals as Leaders, ex-Animosity) and Chaney Crabb (vocals) unveil their new EP, An End to Everything, on Metal Blade Records.
We start with An End to Everything, the eponymous composition where groove and technicality combine harmoniously to accommodate Chaney‘s vociferations while offering a certain soaring dissonance in the background. A few clean vocals provide an interesting contrast to the violence, before All for Nothing takes its turn to trample us, thanks to a frenzied, jerky drumbeat that fits in perfectly with the rest of the instrumental. The track is relatively heavy, especially at the end, joining Life in Slow Motion where the duo are resolutely more aggressive, laying down a savage, almost uninterrupted rhythmic beat, with only a few moments of respite until the feedback that signals the transition to A Thousand Days, where the progression in violence resumes. The vocalist also diversifies to offer relatively soaring, intense refrains, and then the band already brings its creation to a close with Return to Me, the only of the compositions not yet revealed, and which is more rooted in the band’s Prog roots, with all the same eruptions of violence and seething drums.
Entheos‘ message remains mysterious, but the band remains true to itself, offering on An End to Everything a true continuation of Time Will Take Us All. Their work remains extremely qualitative, even if the EP is a bit short.
85/100