Album Spotlight: Antigama - Reasonance

Reasonance  sees Antigama release their debut album, on Relapse Records and sees them combing old-school  grindcore style with modern technical metal. Antigama really brought grind metal to fans with sheer brutality on their last album Zeroland, but this time they have upped the ante while honing their skills.

At 31 minutes long, the album has 17 tracks that are thrown out to fans with such brutality and speed that it is often hard to know where one song ends and where the other begins. In fact they tend to blur one into another and it is only until we are halfway through the album that Antigama seem to take a breather and show that they can do more than just produce the same  aggressive speed sound. The second half of the album is more diverse, as the band experiements with different sounds.

The songwriting is smoother than on their previous albums, and while in the past they have seemed to not quite fit, this time they seem to roll with the punches, and fit in perfectly with the band’s sound and style.

Antigama bring to Resonance to fans with blasts of angular riffs performed with aggression and precision. The real showstealer of this album though is drummer Krzysztof Bentkowski who intrigues with his unusual drumming tones and desire to be creative. He manages to infuse thrash with tribal fills, leaving the drummer a force to be reckoned with.

For fans of grind metal this is one definitely worth looking at.