SECTU — Inundate (review)

SECTU — Inundate album cover Album · 2011 · Technical Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Time Signature
Age of splendour...

Genre: technical death metal

This has been a good year for tech/prog metal and has already seen releases by Obscura and Neuraxis, and now the Swedish band Sectu as well.

Swedish band, you say? Melodeath, you say?

No, unlike their fellow countrymen from Gothenburg, this Stockholm-based do not have a shred of melodeath to their sound (not that there is anything wrong with melodeath), but instead deliver technical and semi-progressive death metal with lots of twists and turns in the form of, for instance, loads of changes, quirky riffage, and unusual and often jazzy-sounding chords and harmonies. The tracks on this album, while technical, also have an aspect of brutality to them in the form of more aggressive riffage and tremolo-picking accompanied by blastbeats every now and then, and then there is a considerable injection of thrash metal as well, which contributes further energy to the overall picture. Moreover, Sectu have a knack for combining aggressive uptempo sections with crushingly heavy sections, adding their own twisted groove (just check the opening track "Age of Splendour").

"Indundate" is a very strong debut, and with its technical and semi-progressive death metal with thrash metal influences, it should appeal to fans of the likes of Atheist, Obscura, Neuraxis, Nocturnus, and Death.
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more than 2 years ago
I certainly enjoyed it.
adg211288 wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Sounds like something I may enjoy, I'm going to have to check this out sometime.
more than 2 years ago
I liked it. It's sort of in the same vein as Neuraxis' latest album.
J-Man wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Sounds interesting!

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