CONTRARIAN

Technical Death Metal • United States
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Formed in 2014, Contrarian are a progressive/avant/technical death metal band from the USA. They released their debut album Polemic in 2015.
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CONTRARIAN Polemic album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Polemic
Technical Death Metal 2015
CONTRARIAN To Perceive Is To Suffer album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
To Perceive Is To Suffer
Technical Death Metal 2017
CONTRARIAN Their Worn Never Dies album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Their Worn Never Dies
Technical Death Metal 2019
CONTRARIAN Only Time Will Tell album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Only Time Will Tell
Technical Death Metal 2020

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CONTRARIAN Predestined album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Predestined
Technical Death Metal 2014

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CONTRARIAN To Perceive Is To Suffer

Album · 2017 · Technical Death Metal
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Any album that features George Kollias on drums is always going to pique my interest. One such album is this, To Perceive Is To Suffer, the second full length album from progressive/technical death metallers Contrarian.

Despite the death metal tag to call them that would be over simplifying things. This is not surprisingly really complex stuff indeed and contains elements of jazz rock/fusion amongst the more extreme metal traits. The sound is surprisingly sparse with each instrument clear as a bell, much of the guitar work is relatively cleanly played underpinned by a toppy bass sound and of course George Kollias’s relentless drumming onslaught. Imagine Watchtower if they’d been a death metal band, throw in some latter day Death and you won’t be a million miles away. With Kollias taking on vocals as well, as expected they’re of the death growl persuasion most of the time. The exception being At Fate’s Hands which is cleanly though somewhat weakly sung. Each musician excels in his chosen field with plenty of jaw dropping instrumental work from all with constantly shifting rhythmic structures and blistering lead work. The only problem, as is the case with much of this sort of stuff is lack of memorability. Sure, you can’t reasonably expect an immediate hit from music this complex but it’s an album I admire rather than love, even after a number of plays. Still there’s no denying the skill involved in putting together compositions of this nature and it’s largely for that reason and the excellent musicianship that it warrants 3 ½ stars, ½ a star more than I originally was feeling it deserved.

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