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Rating: Masterpiece
What the hell do these guys have in their deranged brains to make something like that ? Experimental, progressive, tortured, weird, complex, dark, technical, psychotic, jazzy... there's an infinity of advectives I could use to describe their music, but none of them would be able to explain how LINEAR SPHERE sounds like. In fact, I guess nothing can explain this except the word "mad". The tracks on this album are mainly long ("From space of time" clocks around 30 minutes), always incredibly technical, with so many breaks that in the end I wonder if there was something breakable in the songs. The feeling that emerges is enormous, really jazz-like (due to drums and bass), but the whole mood turns into something crazy because of the vocalist who must be influenced by King Diamond for the theatrical parts of the vocal lines. One can also hear some little tech-death metal or technothrash sounds here and there (some passages remind me of CORONER or CYNIC), and that gives a lot of energy to the music, together with omnipresent finger-full guitar leads. To conclude, a few years after the discovery of the French genius of ELLIPSIS, we have the chance to be allowed to hear how the English genius can sound like. Perfect.
Reviewer: Séb
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