BILOCATE — Summoning The Bygones (review)

BILOCATE — Summoning The Bygones album cover Album · 2012 · Melodic Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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"Summoning The Bygones" is the 3rd full-length studio album by Jordan, Amman based doom/death metal act Bilocate. The album was released through code666 in June 2012. It´s not everyday you come across extreme metal acts (or metal acts of any kind) from Jordan, so I was quite frankly slightly skeptical before listening to "Summoning The Bygones". Fortunately my skepticism was unfounded and "Summoning The Bygones" is proof that our middle-eastern metal brothers have come far in the last couple of years in terms of delivering professional sounding releases.

The music on the album is doom/death metal with progressive leanings. The vocals are mostly growling but Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Nightingale...etc) makes a surprise clean vocal guest appearance on "Hypia" and on the closing track "A Desire to Leave III. ...Of Living". There are also sections with atmospheric talking and rare use of other clean type vocals. The music is structured in a "progressive" fashion and most tracks are long and quite intricate. The riffs and rythms are heavy (occasionally faster paced too though), there are melodic lead guitar melodies in spades and an omnipresence of synths/keyboards/pianos providing the music with a symphonic edge. The music is overall pretty polished but not lifeless or clinical.

All tracks are well composed and intriguing, which makes for an entertaining listen all the way through the 72:49 minutes long playing time. The above mentioned "Hypia" is definitely among the highlights but the Paradise Lost cover "Dead Emotion", which is so well arranged that it blends in perfectly with the rest of the material, is also a standout track. All in all "Summoning The Bygones" is a high quality release featuring excellent musicianship (I´m especially impressed by the lead guitarist Baha Farah), a powerful clear production, and as mentioned above intriguing compositions. A 3.5 - 4 star (75%) rating is fully deserved.
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adg211288 wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I keep feeling I'm missing out with this one but despite the amount of listens I gave it I couldn't get it to click properly. Maybe one day I'll go back to it and like it more though.

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