Metal Review
Illogicist is doing its level best to convince you that you’ve got it all wrong with this anti-tech-death thing, that the fevered protestations of “all flash, no substance” are undeserved. Three albums in, and these Italians remain an underappreciated voice of cogent melody and actual songcraft. The band’s debut effort, 2004’s Subjected, was a beastly debut and...Read More
Metal Injection
Axiomatic in all technical variants of heavy metal – whether it be prog, thrash, death or otherwise – is that it is as much about the quality of the riff as your ability to warp time signatures into hairpin turns. The latter emphasis was elevated to a peak of outright burlesque on Spiral Architect's lone album, 2000's singular masterpiece A Skeptic's Universe. Chops as outsider...Read More