WHY U NO LISTEN TO ALLEGAEON?!??!?!?! Is it because their
name is almost impossible to read? Is it because you don’t like awesome music
that is capable of setting your balls on fire!?!? Whatever your reason is, you
need to settle in and listen to these melodic-tech-death maestros. Their
previous album Fragments of Form and
Function was one of my favorite albums of 2010 and I have been eagerly
awaiting their next opus. Welcome 2012
when the Fort Collins, CO band released Formshifter,
another grand piece of melodic death metal. Combining death metal with
classical guitar interludes and mind bending solos that make the Haldron
Collider seem like a 6th grader’s science project, the band seem to
have elaborated on their previous album and expanded their horizons to new
reaches.
The album starts off with “Behold (God I Am)” that begins
with very mellow guitars that slowly build into a delicious melody to get your
head banging then proceeds directly into teh br00talness. When lead throat
shredder Ezra steps up to the mic and screams, “Man’s greatest mystery; Its
human nature to believe in something” the earth starts to rumble and anyone
listening instantly raises their invisible oranges to the skies in hopes of
sacrificing their first born to the metal gods. This first track exemplifies exactly
who Allegaeon are, a band who values melody and brutality equally and uses technical
precision as their vehicle to show the world their beauty. One of the things
the band does so well is balance the heaviness of death metal and the melody of
damn good music while being extremely technical in a way that doesn’t bore the
listener. As the album continues on, the jams get juicier. "Twelve - Vals for the Legions" hits hard from the beginning with jackhammer drums underneath some tasty licks that beg the listener to bang their head. As soon as the vocals erupt the tone of the song turns evil and even the guitar solos take the song down a dark path. With lyrics telling a tale of murder and persuasion, the band unearths its devilish side. Ending the song with acoustic guitars only makes the song more intense. The entire album is solo after solo after solo with hellacious vocals that are made for the live setting. Technicality plus brutality and melody are a recipe for an amazing album and a terrific live show. Although they havent toured yet for the album, it is only a matter of time before they are unleashed and the underground consumes their tasty brand of metal. 
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