Gloria Morti - Lateral Constraint
Ah
Finland. How do I love thee? More and more each day as you proffer to mine
listening ears your best and most talented bands that oft aurally please me.
Into the churlish waters that are the musical fray, I give unto thee and thine
Gloria Morti and their album Lateral Constraint on Cyclone Empire record label.
To
be sure, I have no idea what Psycho is singing about on the album Lateral
Constraint. I understood maybe one in four words. It was too bothersome to try
to understand and it distracted from the music. I chose to treat the vocals as
another instrument that adds to the polyphony.
The
overall tone of Gloria Morti’s Lateral Constraint is consistency. Each song
retains lots of elements of the last song. This makes Lateral Constraint flow wonderfully.
Part of the consistency is the impressive drumming by Kauko Kuusisalo. Kauko is
a beast! It’s like his only order was to hit these, very hard, and often.
Sometimes the drumming seems as a blur, as if all the beats melt into one. He’s
just that fast.
Lateral
Constraint by Gloria Morti is a scrumptious blend of death metal and speed
metal. It has the intensity and heaviness of death metal and the 16th
notes of speed metal. The stand out is that the guitar arrangements are full of
flourish.
"Hallucinations"
is by far the most interesting song on the album. It combines operatic elements
with a cacophonous drum sound. To wit, the drums are shrill and at odds with
the death like vocals and the bleak keyboards that waft in and out of the
composition. Gloria Morti threw everything into this song including the kitchen
sink. "Hallucinations" is worth a few listens.
I
totally dig the interplay between Juho Raiha and Eero Silvonen on guitars. At
times Juho and Eero are in perfect sync. Sometimes they harmonize. Sometimes
they go off on musical tangents that just make the listener go wow!
Gloria
Morti’s Lateral Constraint is forty-five minutes of pure unadulterated metal.
If you are a death metal aficionado definitely pick up this disk. If you hate
death metal and think it droll and uninspiring, I urge you to give Lateral
Constraint a listen. It will change your mind. Gloria Morti will pleasantly
surprise you.
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