STARGAZER A Merging To The Boundless LP

STARGAZER A Merging To The Boundless LP

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(Nuclear War Now! Productions)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Latest album from the mighty Stargazer, Australian prog-death weirdos extraordinaire. It's been almost five years since their last album A Great Work Of Ages, which made a fan out of me with its combination of occult imagery and arcane lyrical visions, uniquely ornate songwriting, and utterly twisted, crushing death metal, and this follows in that vein with another batch of brain-scrambling songs, coming across once again like some weird otherworldly version of Atheist's seminal jazz-death.
     Made up of members of some serious heavy hitters from the Australian metal underground (Cauldron Black Ram, Mournful Congregation, Martire), Stargazer get into even weirder territory than before. Blurry, hornetlike tremolo riffs buzz in baroque formation around strikingly bright melodies and swells of majestic riffage. Jazzy, fusiony bass guitar burbles across vicious blackened thrash and bursts of spacey atmospherics. Flamenco-like arpeggios cascade across passages of brooding strummed guitar, before everything erupts into violent, proggy heaviness. It's rhythmically complex stuff, with lots of odd tempo changes and jarring time signatures, but Stargazer also make this quite approachable by balancing their proggy tendencies and the dexterous musicianship with an array of dark and driving riffs and strong songwriting, maintaining Merging's atmosphere of surrealistic derangement. Guitar-wise, there's also a sharply discordant edge to a lot of the riffs and you get a couple of moments where there's even a bit of a Voivoidian vibe, but when those sharp-edged riffs combine with the expressive, articulate bass playing, it creates a uniquely compelling sound. And never more so than on the eleven minute centerpiece to the album, "The Grand Equalizer", which stands out as possibly Stargazer's most adventurous composition yet. One of the best prog-death albums that's come out in the past year, a genuinely weird but weirdly infectious slab of avant-garde metal with an amazing, meticulously executed melodic sensibility.
     Released on both CD and limited edition LP, the latter presented in gatefold packaging with a large foldout poster.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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