Becoming the Archetype
Celestial Completion

And finally something interesting, something cool, something well-made… Scisso… and it doesn't lean one way or the other.

The scale is no longer balanced, the Progressive weight has finally subdued the stupid and banal Death of the first 3 years. And with extreme violence, this “Celestial Completion” throws off the balance the other 3 weights that for three long albums have been here… and I won't tell you where "here" is. A year of study, a year of work… Guys, finally something that can be enjoyed from these “Becoming The Archetype”. Some of you may already know them for doing some sort of Christian Metal… But since when is music labeled by the themes of its lyrics? Insane stuff!!!!

The sound quality of this latest 2011 work is practically excellent and finally of good quality. The rhythms, oh heck, are very well done and pump wonderfully! And the solos, my goodness, really beautiful, maybe a bit fast but truzzy for being truzzy, damn. The drums are made hefty but remain old, too tied to death and with too regular a cadence. Lastly, but far more importantly, the vocal ensemble… oh my dad… orgasms and jerk-offs are a dime a dozen, what a marvel.

The Growl has remained practically unchanged, but damn, the scream is furious, relentless, and kaleidoscopic to the max, holy crap! And the clean, help me say how cool it is, is really made with golden needle and thread, making our friend Akerfeldt or Renkse spin. But like every coin, it also has its reverse; well yes, the kaleidoscopic scream and celestial clean are totally sidelined, their appearances are brief and hard to appreciate. What a shame, despite the good cadence in some aspects they are still fossilized in the most archaic death.

Returning to the instrumental, well, there is to highlight the elevated progression in the use of melodies and riffs, changes from true prog death in the Opeth manner. I don't know if you browse Wikipedia, but in this album, a myriad of instruments is used, sitar, soprano choirs, percussion, synthesizers, trumpets, diabolic flutes,… what is this, an orgy?... No, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the beauty remains only attached to a series of words because in reality, the "unusual instruments" are used very little and for very brief periods, besides being all detached and not overlapping each other. Let's admit: the beauty is a little disgusting.

This detachment is also aggravated by the fact that there are 11 songs and only 46 minutes available. There are numerous mini-instrumentals that I don't quite like. There is a trilogy made up of 3 songs (Captain Obvious) that are detached from each other and which together do not reach 13 minutes, a totally negative image blow for my standards. Then the intro is useless and pointless. At least 2 or 3 songs could have been spared (I speak to you as a great lover of "THE TOTAL TIME OF AN ALBUM IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE NUMBER OF SONGS CONTAINED IN IT", never listened to a "Morningrise" or "A Change of Seasons").

Well, the criticism ends here, we should already be too pleased for the good course they have set with this “Celestial Completion”. I hope for an even stronger fortification in the next one. At first glance, I would say that the album hides a diabolical concept, but I don't care to know.

The cover is really cool, on a metallic boat rising while being destroyed it says “D.SEAGRAVE.11”. In fact, the designer is a certain Seagrave who has also worked for Pestilence and Edge of Sanity, quite a deal.

In the end, I give it a 7 ½ that I would happily round up to an 8-.

Attached a couple of samples to invite you to listen to it in full. Sorry if there are quite a few, but there are a lot of cool things.

I hope you liked the review and the album.