Oh, how long I waited for the license for this disc. And I'll be honest -- I couldn't wait and bought the original CD. But now we have a licensed product before us.
SYMBYOSIS is an unknown band that can safely be classified as underground, but the label "underground" by no means implies that what we have here is a poorly recorded, dumb CANNIBAL CORPSE clone. NO!
SYMBYOSIS are gourmets. The musical foundation of this album is tech-death, but the sick minds and twisted imaginations of these Frenchmen absolutely refuse to fit within the narrow confines of any genre or other conventions. The band boldly, but without going overboard, borrows from other musical styles: samples, orchestrations, vocals that fall somewhere between growling and screaming, mind-blowing tech-progressive solos...
The instrumental proficiency and compositional talent command respect, while the atmosphere frightens and mesmerizes in equal measure. Add French sophistication to the mix.
And the result is a magnificent metal product -- exceptionally atmospheric, technical, and unconventional.
Magnificent!!!