Altsounds - No Made Sense - The Epillanic Choragi [Album]

Holy Shit! This is awesome! I could end it there, but it’s generally better to say a few things, get us all on the same page, that sort of thing. No Made Sense? Where the hell have they been? Here I am, skimming through metal day in, day out. Always looking for the new rad for the station, and, like fucking left field, bam! Hello? What’s this here? No Made Sense! You best recognize!

And now the review I intended to do when I started this rant. Research, for me, has turned up most of fuck all on this band. That doesn’t matter. I can tell you this is perhaps the most impressive metal album I’ve heard all year. It soars in complexity, yet keeps my head banging with a steady enjoyable groove. “The Epillanic Choragi” somehow manages to make a nine minute song feel metal radio friendly, and that’s no small feat for any band.

This UK outfit have mastered the art of the open fist, in that, like a ninja, they’ve raped and pillaged my brain meats with fury and stealth before I ever knew what hit me.

Ostensibly, "The Epillanic Choragi", is the story of Syr Azure’s fight to save his home planet Milachis. I don’t understand the story, nor does anyone else it seems. However, just having that story sticks "The Epillanic Choragi’s" paws deep into a fantasy metal theme, and that puts a big fat smile on my geek face. These brutal vocals, dissonant and beautiful guitar riffs are all present sans wanker posing. Such heavy drums, yet how they can drop so low in intensity is baffling. I’m getting romantic about this album. It’s kind of sick.

This is like the first time hearing Mastodon, Baroness, or High On Fire. It brings a tear to my eye, and a bang to my head. Bang to my head? Yeah…Yeah, I’ll go with that. If there’s any part of you that loves metal, then hear me now! Steal your mother’s purse, sell your sperm, rob a liquor store, work a steady job, whatever. Get some money together and pick up “The Epillanic Choragi” by No Made Sense!