Weekly Review #3 is here! The album in this week’s review is “Perfect World Creation” by Dark Matter Secret. This band was founded by Denis Shvarts and Pavel Semin of Irreversible Mechanism, which is definitely reflected in the band’s progressive death metal sound.
The album starts with an atmospheric intro titled “Chaos Born”. It starts with dissonant acoustic guitar combined with eerie sound effects. Towards the end however, it transitions to a more melodic structure, while still keeping some of the dissonant feeling. This is one of my personal favorite intros, as it fills you with anticipation and also reflects some of the coming songs very well.
The second track is titled “Ancient God Genesis”. This 8 minute track is the longest one found on the whole album, and features multiple guitar solos, brilliant riffs, odd time signatures and drums that reach further into much more creative playing than just straight blast beats for 8 minutes straight. This track is simply a stand-alone great tech-death song, and feels like it would work as a single. I feel like this is a slightly unappreciated detail when it comes to metal songwriting, which is individual songs that deliver on all fronts, while still holding a beginning, middle, and end type of structure.
“The Emergence of Time” is another song with brilliant technical guitar work, while now also introducing much more aggressive and technical drumming to go with it. This type of drumming and the dissonant tech-death riffs on this track compliment each other very well. This track also features a lot more of straight-up riffs that form more distinctive sections, while still keeping the dissonant and chaotic part of the band’s sound fully intact.
The fourth track, “Synthesis of Matter”, features a much more melodic feeling, while maintaining the aggressive drums from the previous song. This is one of those songs where there isn’t a distinct solo section, but the whole song feels like a well crafted blend of melodic guitar where riffs and solos are hard to tell apart. This being said, there aren’t many of what would be considered traditional “riffs”, but the song still manages to sound thoughtful and well organised.
“Constellation Glows” is a more similar track to “Ancient God Genesis”, while also using melodic elements (especially towards the end of the song) to create a more atmospheric feeling. The outro even features some acoustic guitar with a similar feeling to “Chaos Born”, which leads well into the intro of the final track on the album.
The final track, “Perfect World Creation”, starts off with an intro composed of dissonant solo guitar, which eventually fades into the first portions of the song. This track is where the dissonance and beautiful melody on this album come to an ultimate climax, which as a result brings a track that doesn’t have 1 second of uninteresting downtime. This track takes all of the positive elements, the brilliant and blast filled drumming, the technical riff work, the eerie and dissonant atmospheric sections, and the melodic guitar work, putting it all together into an amazing package that is the title track of this album. The outro of this final song is dissonant in the same way as the intro, however this time somehow manages to seem less eerie and even uplifting at times. Overall, this is probably the song that combines all of the musical elements on this record the best.
I know that many people can be reluctant to give this type of instrumental music a try, but I can safely say that I haven’t yet heard a better written and executed instrumental metal album that combines the blazing riffs of tech-death and the solos and song writing of melodic death metal bands this well. I can already predict that this album will age very well and will surely be a huge source of inspiration and influence in the coming works on the musicians involved.
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