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Holy Soilwork ripoff, Batman. If a casual listener can’t pick up on the overt reliance of the breakout stars’ influence on a song like “2012, the Demise Of the 5th Sun,” then any semblance of comparative acumen has been lost. It’s all here: the precision riffs, the synthesized lushness enveloping the background, the honeyed vocals sweetening the choruses after accessible death-growled verses. It’s so brazen a derivation that I could easily chuck the whole thing as inessential, were it not for the enthusiasm, the rhythmic snap and the goddamn SONGS themselves. When a wonderful chorus chimes in on “Reborn” sounding uncannily like Simple Minds, all better judgment and taste can be summarily trounced in seconds flat. Yeah, filler abounds like a mofo, with utter throwaways like “Veil of Illusions” and “Orchestrate the Infinite” seemingly redeemed only by their sugary lead breaks, and the main riff to “Obscure Alliance” sounds a tad like Trespass’s “One of These Days,” but removing at least five of these choruses from my head will take days of Nasum-induced corrective therapy. With guys from all-around-underrated Centinex, Theory in Practice and Unmoored, just to name a few and just for those keeping tabs.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Chaosweaver |
| 2. 2012 - The Demise of the 5th Sun |
| 3. Dominion |
| 4. Underneath the Surface |
| 5. Reborn |
| 6. Veil of Illusions |
| 7. Obscure Alliance |
| 8. Hybrid Cult |
| 9. Orchestrate the Infinite |
| 10. Detach from the Outcome |
| 11. Seeds of Rebellion |
| 12. The Eleventh Sphere |
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