![]() Why not integrate that feature into the main body and build the song around it, making it the climax it deserves to be? “The Wreck” is particularly frustrating because a magnificent trumpet solo is tacked on to the end. “Orbital Station” and “Starvation Project” suffer from similar shortcomings-lackluster riffing and recycled songwriting which fails to take advantage of the new elements introduced earlier in the album. All but the very end of “Wall of Water” falls short for this exact reason, failing to move the needle past the point already established on Molten Giant. Unfortunately, that makes some of the other material forgettable because they lack an evolutionary link to connect them to the rest of the album. I don’t often think of something as counter-intuitive as a brass instrument as a defining attribute on a tech-death record, but Maelstrom is so much stronger for it. If you can’t already tell, I fell head-over-heels for the trumpet on Maelstrom. Nowhere is this more evident than in leviathan closing duo “The Chosen One” and “Galactic Gods,” which boast massive riffs built upon jazzy foundations and decorated with that emotive trumpet, qualifying the couplet for -of the Year contention. In a way, the song foreshadows Maelstrom’s big twist-trumpet solos! Trumpets surface during quiet moments in the second half of the record, which are surprisingly effective in giving Maelstrom its lonely seafarer personality. Further down the line, “Abyssal Flesh” proffers grandiose orchestrations and a big, protein-powered riff near the end to fuel the listener for the next few songs. Nevertheless, the sole purpose of “Maelstrom” is to dig hooks into your face with prejudice, and in that it succeeds. ![]() The song smacks of Exocrine, but it features a punchy main riff a few hooky clean choruses which never show up again and a deep-sea aesthetic which gets watered down in subsequent tracks. Opener “Maelstrom” is a bit of an outlier. The band also reduced lyrical cringe compared to the last album, but you’ll be hard pressed to care because, you know, death metal. In order to offset these added layers, Exocrine simplified their riffs enough to bridge the gap between straightforward death and hypermodern tech without overloading on wankery. Compositions take an unexpected direction from that point, however, where many cuts swell amongst waves of symphonic flourishes, with just a bit of jazzy froth over top. The trademark Exocrine arpeggios and Metroid-adjacent synths that I love so much remain fully intact as always. Exocrine pull out all of the stops with this new album. The French four-banger decided to go with a water-type Techy-mon for their fourth installment, Maelstrom. Yet, it put a big, stupid grin on my big, stupid face. It looked like stock tech-death, sounded like stock tech-death, and stepped on just about every mine littering the tech-death field. Tight, jagged and delightfully choppy, Exocrine delivered a big sleeper with Molten Giant. Regardless of the criticisms it received in the linked review, I return to that record still, twenty-two months after it’s initial release. At the precise moment another horse came, except it was white.Are you ready for a hot take? I enjoy deeply of Exocrine’s Molten Giant. The, next moment the horse came back at him for some reason it kept running at him so he tried to confuse the horse so that it would stop running at him and so it did, he went further into the beautiful land. He explored the strange place without any warning a black horse came charging out at him without any time wasting he sped out of the way. Instead of ending up at home he found, himself in a beautiful land he had never before seen. Soon he found himself far from the woods so he ran faster than ever before he had run. It was not easy running from a giant because they were fast. So he rested for a while but as his mind caught up with him he thought he better start running before the giant caught up with him. The man who had delivered the wood late ran for his life because he knew what would happen once the, giant had caught him.Ī few hours later he realised that he wasn’t able to run any further. So everyone knew about that once he was storming, through the place. Once upon a time there lived a very rude giant and he hated humans in his way.
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