DECAPITATED — Organic Hallucinosis

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4.26 | 21 ratings | 2 reviews

Album · 2006

Filed under Technical Death Metal
By DECAPITATED

Tracklist

1. A Poem About an Old Prison Man (4:41)
2. Day 69 (3:14)
3. Revelation of Existence (The Trip) (4:39)
4. Post(?) Organic (5:45)
5. Visual Delusion (5:55)
6. Flash-B(l)ack (3:41)
7. Invisible Control (4:44)

Total Time: 32:43

Line-up/Musicians

- Adrian "Covan" Kowanek / vocals
- Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka / drums
- Marcin "Martin" Rygiel / bass
- Waclaw "Vogg" Kieltyka / guitars

About this release

Full-length, Earache Records, February 7th, 2006

Bonus tracks for Japan:
8. Nihility (Anti-Human Manifesto) (Live)
9. Spheres Of Madness (Live)

The lyrics from Track 1 are taken from a Poem by Charles Manson and therefore had to be omitted from the insert.

In the UK/Euro, a Limited-Edition Dual-Disc with a DVD of a live show filmed at 7th November 2005 was released.

A limited edition of 1,000 and given away free by Earache to people buying the 'Organic Hallucinosis' from independant stores in the U.K. The design is made to look like a CD-r burn, but it is an official Earache release (MOSH 321CDX).

The recording was taken from the Earache Christmas party in Nottingham, England.

Thanks to UMUR, Vehemency, adg211288 for the updates

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UMUR

"Organic Hallucinosis" is the fourth full-length studio album by Polish death metal act Decapitated. The album was released through Earache Records in February 2006. It´s the successor to "The Negation" from March 2004. There´s been one lineup change since the last album as original lead vocalist Wojciech "Sauron" Wąsowicz has been replaced by Adrian "Covan" Kowanek.

Although still very young at this point (drummer Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka was for example only 22 years old in 2006, but had already recorded four full-length studio albums with Decapitated), Decapitated had already been through a lot of musical development on the first three albums by the band, and "Organic Hallucinosis" marks another major step in their development. Kowanek is a more hoarse, throaty, and intelligible growler than the more regular death metal growling Wąsowicz and his more diverse vocal style (he performs a few screams too) is a nice asset to the band´s sound. As if Decapitated were´t technical enough on the preceding releases they´ve upped their technical playing on "Organic Hallucinosis" even further. There are some mindblowing guitar riffs and drum patterns featured on this album, which deserve repeated listens and praise.

What is most remarkable though is probably how they´ve approached the songwriting on this album. The heavy organic grooves and the sharp and brutal start/stop riffing of the last couple of releases are there and accounted for, but some of these tracks feature some pretty unconventional structures and compositional ideas. Sometimes I´m thinking there´s a dark psychedelic sci-fi atmosphere to some of the guitar themes and the overall mood of the album, and it´s obvious that Decapitated have put a lot of effort into writing some challenging and adventurous songs for themselves and for their fans. "Day 69" is an example of that, when Kieltyka is allowed some seconds of a capella drumming time, where he plays the songs percussive pattern without the other instruments playing. It´s just a little detail, but there are many like it on the album, and it speaks volumes of a band not resting on their songwriting laurels.

"Organic Hallucinosis" features a powerful, heavy, clear, and detailed sound production, which suits the material perfectly and upon conclusion it´s through and through a high quality release. While Decapitated had always incorporated a lot of heavy grooves and angular riffing on their previous releases, they take it a step further on "Organic Hallucinosis". They may alienate a few of their most old school death metal fans in the process, but if you can imagine pairing the old school brutality of the previous Decapitated releases with blistering technical playing, and a heavy groove laden influence from artists like Meshuggah and their ilk, you´ll probably appreciate "Organic Hallucinosis". A 4.5 star (90%) rating is deserved.

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Decapitated have had a very important role in death metal history, and a quite underlooked one at that. While the American death metal scene slowly watered down and became more quieter, the Europeans started to pick up the genre and really morph it. Bands like Dissection and Necrophagist did give the genre a slightly more technical and more epic feel, but the sound really had been given an extra oomph by these Polish death metal veterans.

One of the biggest highlights of this album has to be the production. In many ways the production reminds me of Zyklon's “Disintegrate”, but maybe even more extreme. The guitars and drum combination on this album really are mindblowing and are totally in your face the whole time. The sound on this album is probably the bands more technical moments

This album also sees the only time vocalist Covan would perform on one of the band's releases. I do actually enjoy his voice a lot on this album. His vocals remind me a mixture of a more gruffer version of John Tardy from Obituary mixed with Robb Flynn's more gruffer vocals.

Sadly, this album was the last album to feature drummer Vitek, after he tragically died in a car crash, just after the album's resale. In many ways this album is the perfect tribute, because his drumming on this album is absolutely fantastic, and really does show how he really was one of the most talented drummers in metal history.

The album opener “A Poem About An Old Prison Man” is a brilliant intro. With dark foreboding lyrics taken from a poem written by Charles Manson, it matches well with the absolutely chaotic riffs and insane drumming. “Day 69” has some rather Nile sounding riffs, which always is able to add atmosphere to certain moments.

One of the albums more interesting moments has to be on the album's 2 longest compositions “Post(?)Organic” and “Visual Delusion.” Due to their longer track times, the songs obviously have a lot more added to them, with a lot of interesting twists and turns, that show the technical side to the band.

In conclusion, this album proves that these guys are a dominant force in the death metal world. This album is definitely one of the heaviest these guys have released. If you like death metal brutal, then this is the perfect mixture of good musicianship and earth shattering sounds.

RIP Vitek

8/10