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Extreme metallers In-Quest have released a new album filled with 11 death/trash songs coated within a touch of industrialism. ‘The Comatose Quandaries’ is the bands fourth full-length and their most ambitious, with the result of also being their most mature offering. Probably due to the fact that besides the cutting brutal riffs there is enough room left for melody, which gets transcripted amazingly into slowly stretched leads and solos. This has by now become a trademark of the Belgian five piece. The vocal work is no longer done by Sven de Caluwé (Aborted) but has been taken over by Swedish singer ’Mike Löfberg’ of the band ‘Blockhead‘. I believe this has been a quite positive change and only contributed to the music. Not that I disliked Sven’s grunts but it just didn’t fit in with In-Quest anymore, a band that doesn’t mind expanding it’s horizons and progressing a bit. It’s just amazing what Mike does with his voice especially the contrasts in the way of singing which can be found in the song ‘Socioneural Geneticism’.
After succesful cooperation with producer Tue Madsen on the previous album the band wanted to have the Danish mastermind behind the controls again and I must say what an amazing production he did! The other Danish connection was through guest vocalist Micheal of ‘Mnemic’ on the song ‘The Comatose Quandary’. One of the highlights on the record must be the track ‘Warpath’. An unusual In-Quest tune which has a very slow build-up to a great climax. While one guitarist plays a simplistic repetition of only one riff the other manages to create a dreamy and spooky melody accompanying it. A great marching anthem. The whole album consists of a dark and futuristic atmosphere which gets extra stressed out by the use of different types of samples. Did I mention the blast beats? Just mind-blowing and fast to say the least. As the song titles might have already proclaimed the lyrics handle about futuristic topics and not directly of death and destruction.
When I must compare In-Quest with other bands genre wise I’ll put it this way. I can reassuringly say that they play on the same level as acts such as Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad and Fear Factory. These bands have all influenced each other at some point in their carrier and certainly had an impact on In-Quest. The door has opened for In-Quest to step into the world of great extreme metal bands. The comatose quandary of this band will hopefully come to an end because they really have something special to offer!
| Tracklist |
| 1. Diffuse Pattern Recognition |
| 2. Audiotoxic Binaries |
| 3. Socioneural Geneticism |
| 4. Cryotron Frequency |
| 5. The Frozen: Nuclear Aftermath |
| 6. The Comatose Quandary |
| 7. Warpath |
| 8. Systematic Arhythemic Hate |
| 9. Operation: Citadel (bonus track) |
| 10. Sigmoid Signal |
| 11. Resilient Androtronic Carnage |
: 56.35
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