{"id":69436,"date":"2018-05-31T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=69436"},"modified":"2018-05-31T21:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T21:31:24","slug":"album-review-endless-mad-sick-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-endless-mad-sick-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"ENDLESS – Mad Sick Mind (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ENDLESS
Mad Sick Mind<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNecromance (2018)<\/span>
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In my opinion female vocalist Darkyrie has some of the most lethal growls and sneers in the business, making Endless one hell of an extreme metal outfit.<\/p>\n

This Spanish tag-team of terror has been active since late 2011, resulting in five consistent full-length studio albums to-date. The latest, the bruising Mad Sick Mind<\/em>, is a heavyweight attack that throws punches like boulders and jabs like harpoons. This is some seriously thick, layered and brutal death metal built upon those enormous vocal scowls which literally lap away feverishly at the grinding riffs of Enrique Prieto.<\/p>\n

The only issue I have with these guys is the programming, which pretty much erases any real earthy drum assault. But for the most part this is one fuckin\u2019 hostile record that\u2019s impossible to headbang to because it\u2019s so fast and volatile.<\/p>\n

Darkyrie is a formidable character; her bellows and chesty emissions weave their way through the flurries and thrashes as tracks such as \u2018Destroy My Life\u2019, \u2018Mad Sick Mind\u2019, \u2018I Feel Nothing\u2019 and \u2018Know Yourself\u2019 rage upon dense rolls and flash with orchestral effects.<\/p>\n

Mad Sick Mind<\/em> is not an overtly complex album, but rarely does a track rest on one tone or groove. Instead, we get numerous shifts as sporadic gushes couple with crushing heaves before a steely yet gothic effect comes rushing to aid the ambush. \u2018Inner Beast\u2019 is a fine example of that marrying of sweeping samples \/ effects and heavyweight pulverisation as the guitars froth like oceans of grey madness. <\/p>\n

Endless are very much modern by design but weighing down the listener with those stern collaborations of instrumentation and styles, so that while the death metal core is fluent and dominant there\u2019s a sudden ache of cold, grey melody in a spiralling lead or immense groove shuffle.<\/p>\n

Mad Sick Mind<\/em> is just one formidable wall. It stands like a behemoth, muscular and casting long, bleak shadows while Darkyrie beckons from atop the wall like a goddess of ghoulish nature, utterly belligerent as she barks through that massive mesh of tumbles and fog on \u2018Where Is Your God?\u2019 and the ferocious \u2018The Extinction Of The Species\u2019.<\/p>\n

I also don\u2019t know how this duo can construct such gargantuan slabs of punishment yet at the same time almost caress the listener with such dark waves. Maybe it\u2019s those orchestral streaks which flare up? But the production values must also be noted too, because while the record provides so many flurries of anguish, angst and aggression, it is all fused together in a sort of fluffy coating whereby there\u2019s no real glimmering gloss. And yet Endless prowl a chasm far removed from fusty death metal values. So somewhere in-between, the band has created a world in which to breathe and radiate vast clouds of density where an instrumental delicacy such as \u2018Part Of God\u2019 can flow into the raging yet serene waters.<\/p>\n

Mad Sick Mind<\/em> is a bulldozer of an oeuvre that grabs and smashes you with weight, blistering instrumentation and Darkyrie\u2019s powerful demon throat.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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