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Anatomy Of I - Los(T) Angered Sessions - Reviewed By Metal Digest ! Check it out here at this link: https://metal-digest.com/2022/10/18/anatomy-of-i-the-lost-angered-sessions/

When an extreme progressive metal band knows how to avoid excess, that’s when quality is produced. When thinking of terms like “death metal” or “progressive”, the word restraint does not come to mind. However, Anatomy of I has managed to create an album that is simultaneously profuse and tasteful.

The guitars show flashes of brilliance such as the solo in ‘The End of Eternity’ but also seem content to hold down simple riffs when the song needs to progress. The drums never meander into displays of spectacle, but manage to pull off tasteful fills while maintaining a tight groove. The vocals stay firmly in the lane of death metal and never venture into the effusive demonstrations that other progressive metal vocalists lean on. The songs are all tight, with only ‘Verified Brain Fragments’ and ‘Cosmic Rain’ clocking in at more than six-minute long.

The opening track ‘Drowning’ features a rhythmic harmonica section. These out-of-the-box choices are what make the album “progressive”. However, this same song making another appearance at the end of the record only this time with a clean singer is an out-of-the-box choice that seems unnecessary. The album closes with the aforementioned reappearance and ‘Banished Messiah’ which is a good song, but closing with two clean singing songs after an album full of extreme is jarring. It seems like a completely different album. These odd choices damper what would otherwise be a brilliant album. - Metal Digest

Release Date: Feb 25th, 2022

FFO: Carcass, At The Gates, Death

Location: Netherlands

ANATOMY OF I is a progressive death metal band from the Netherlands. Mixing a wide array of influences ranging from 70's jazz fusion to death metal into a mold of tech-thrash metal, ANATOMY OF I plays an experimental and Avant Garde kind of music without losing focus and staying within straightforward songwriting. Since the release of its debut album in September 2011, the band has performed live throughout the Netherlands and abroad with the likes of CANNIBAL CORPSE, MASTER (US/CZ) , DEW SCENTED (D, NL) and SADISTIK FOREST(SF) , among others. While looking forward to hitting the stage in 2022, the band is currently working on recording their sophomore release. The debut album was recorded with STEVE DI GIORGIO (TESTAMENT, DEATH) on fretless bass and DIRK VERBEUREN (MEGADETH, SCARVE) on drums.

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