Becoming The Archetype - Dichotomy
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Artist: Becoming The ArchetypeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Published: 2008-11-01
CD Release Date: 2008-11-24
Music Label: Solid State Records
Soundtracks:
- Mountain of Souls
- Dichotomy
- Artificial Immortality
- Self Existent
- St. Anne's Lullaby
- Ransom
- Evil Unseen
- How Great Thou Art
- Deep Heaven
- End of the Age
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Music Review: This is What Metal Should Be
Rating: 5 Stars
I get that the band name is referencing Christ and how He was the archetype for mankind, but after hearing this album, I've gotta say that Becoming the Archetype is quickly becoming the archetype for heavy, brutal metal. The instrumentalists are amazing at what they do, managing both incredibly complex and technical musicianship while maintaining a relentless melodic feel to the whole thing. And the vocalist is the best screamer/growler I've ever heard in a metal band, bar none. He is able to deliver an aural assault to equal that of the musicians (of which he is one, playing bass for the band), and more importantly is able to manage something so few people can do: he is able to put real emotion into the screaming/growling. All these elements blend together perfectly as well; no one instrument overpowers another, but all manage to work in perfect harmony with one another.
I love bands whose sound you can hear evolve over the course of their albums, and this is certainly true of Becoming the Archetype. Terminate Damnation was an amazingly technical album, but it ultimately fell into the hole found with many bands of their type: sacrificing melody and flow for sheer technicality. This is great, really, but it ends up making it an album that is more appreciated than enjoyed. Physics of Fire went in just the opposite direction. The technicality was still there, but toned way down in order to make a more melodic album. I found myself comparing them to other similar artists -As I Lay Dying, Between the Buried and Me, etc. - when listening to Physics of Fire. It made the album enjoyable, but I ended up missing the technicality of the first album.
And now there's Dichotomy. Excuse the cliché, but this album really presents the best of both worlds: it's very melodic and flows very well, while also managing to present the amazing technicality that makes Becoming the Archetype stand out from the rest. It took me a few listens to fully appreciate the balance (or, one might say, "dichotomy") between the technicality and melody in some songs, and I was blown away once I finally heard it. I think the perfect example of this is the song "Self Existent:" normally there's not much melody in either 7/4 or 5/4 time, especially when the two are so often interchanged durnig the song, but Becoming the Archetype manages to pull it off.
So basically what I'm saying is: if you like the heavy side of metal, then you would be doing yourself a huge disservice not to get this album.
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