More and more black metal bands seem to be dipping a toe into the progressive realm as of late. I'm not sure why black metal lends itself to forays into the progressive, maybe the counter-culture origins of original black metal provoke budding musicians to extend counter-culture into meta-culture, meta-existence. All I know is I'm a fan of progressive anything, as long as some innovation is expressed, some new ideas exposed, some new emotions and states of mind explored. You can easily draw connections between Dodecahedron's sound and that of Deathspell Omega, revolutionaries of progressive black metal, but though I will acknowledge the comparison, Dodecahedron has a decidedly more industrial, mechanical approach to their music. Kwintessens sounds like a machine churning human existence, processing it, crushing it into nothingness. Easily the most difficult listen on my list this year and only suitable for the unabashed nihilists who revel in the horror of non-existence.
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