Dissentience returns with a new EP.
Four years after their debut album, Connor Valentin (guitar/vocals), Jimmy Vitale (guitar/backing vocals), Sean Langer (bass/backing vocals), and Nick Scherden (drums) are back with Kaiju.
Obsidian Tomb offers a fairly melodious introduction before revealing its sharp saturation, then significantly accelerating and striking at a good pace under the vocalist’s screams. The jerky and aggressive patterns quickly get us headbanging, while adding some more elaborate elements and a few backing vocals on the choruses. Then the intense final, bordering on dissonance, leads us to Chaos Absolute, another quickly catchy track. The traditional eruption obviously arrives to sow discord and create a favorable environment for moshing, but the band still takes advantage of a slower passage to launch its leads before moving on to Kaiju, the eponymous and shortest track, which gets straight to the point and unleashes its riffs at full speed. Even the moment of hesitation in the middle of the track lasts only a short while, returning to its original ferocity before finally handing over to Death Shroud, the longest of the tracks, which allows itself the luxury of building up its heavy atmosphere before attacking, but clearly doesn’t hold back, alternating slow heaviness with bursts of liveliness, and ending with a chaotic solo.
In just four tracks, Dissentience gives us plenty of reason to bang our heads frantically! Kaiju offers not only effective Melodic Thrash/Death Metal, but also confident and judiciously placed technicality!
85/100
