New departure for Haxprocess.
After a first independent album, Lothar Mallea (guitar/vocals), Shane Williamson (guitar, Dead Centre, Saturnine), Davis Leader (bass, Dead Centre) and Adam Robinson (drums) join the ranks of Transcending Obscurity Records to create Beyond What Eyes Can See, their second album.
The band gets off to a gentle start with Where Even Stars Die, the first of four long compositions, which shrouds itself in mystery, revealing a few occult melodies before exposing us to its technicality and darkness. The sound remains very raw, while at the same time proposing worked patterns and furious accelerations conducive to all sorts of eruptions of piercing leads, as well as slower, more disquieting moments that punctuate the flow until The Confines of the Flesh violently takes over. While the rhythm remains ferocious from start to finish, complemented by equally solid vocal parts, the harmonics become increasingly chaotic and uncontrollable, fuelling the dissonance before letting Thy Inner Demon Seed follow suit and continue this furious approach. The jerky riffs follow one another with devastating naturalness, combining powerful rhythms and unexpected guitar flights between two jolts, but the track also has its share of surprises, like this slower break towards the end before joining Sepulchral Void, the last and longest composition that surrenders totally to darkness and madness, multiplying the aggressive parts but also the little moments of floating necessary to redouble the violence afterwards.
Haxprocess are part of this wave of bands with an incredibly rich sound, whether in raw power or technicality, and although Beyond What Eyes Can See contains only four tracks, the album is still as dense as ever after several listens!
80/100