![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the combination has rarely been put together as well as it has here. The record’s crushing mix of break-neck tech leads and punishing grooves isn’t really anything that hasn’t been done before within the realms of overly brutal, technical death metal. The songs on Apus are simply more refined than those of The Schoenberg Automaton’s previous output-more direct and recognisable, yet no less impactful or impressive.Īpus sounds absolutely huge. 1 However, this “simplification” of the band’s sound is hardly a watering-down. Whereas the band’s sound could previously be more-readily likened to the likes of The Dillinger Escape Plan and (earlier) Meshuggah, Apus is essentially a cut and dry tech death record, more comparable to the likes of Necrophagist, Origin, Decrepit Birth or Beyond Creation than anything that could be accurately described with a “–core” suffix. A year later, the band uprooted themselves from Australian soil and relocated to Vancouver, Canada, where it seems they have spent the intervening year refining their sound-both in terms of capability and delivery-and returned with one hell of a second effort in Apus.Īpus largely does away with the more experimental/progressive elements of The Shoenberg Automaton’s sound in favour of a more straightforward, technical death metal approach. The Schoenberg Automaton turned, twisted and melded quite a few heads with their 2013 debut, Vela-a stunning display of tech-metal and mathcore chops, combined with all the inherent savagery deathcore and the more-extreme hardcores have to offer. ![]()
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