#5 - Gorod - Process of a New Decline
Sometimes i feel like i'm getting somewhere as a guitarist, actually making some amount of forward progress, but then Gorod releases another album and that thought is quickly extinguished. Damnit Gorod... You don't even have the decency to post the full names of your band members so i can look up their life stories and worship them. The guitar work on Process of a New Decline is unbelievably expressive, making use of everything music theory has to offer. But, unlike a lot of other material in this genre it's actually fun to listen to. Tech death bands often sacrifice memorability for liberal amounts of wanking, and honestly Gorod is no exception. However, Gorod has an approach that i find incredibly attractive. The guitar leads are all really fun to listen to, taking advantage of major scales and runs based on classical composition. The percussion is equally impressive, transitioning fluidly from blasts to funky grooves. There's just so much material here, so many brilliant ideas, it seems impossible for a human being to come up with this amount of material in a lifetime, much less 2 years. Process of a New Decline is an incredibly ambitious offering from these guys and it's a work that should be respected by the entire music community.
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