Chaos Trigger – Outpost 31 (2013)

January 21, 2020

Jesus Christ on a cross, this is a long boi. I mean, I’ve heard much longer albums than the 80 minutes or so going on here, but when the record is built up of djent 7 minuters showcasing little to no variation, peppered only by seemingly mandatory instrumental breaks, then holy fuck it feels like I’ve taken a whole ice age to listen to this thing.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, depending on how much you like razor sharp riffs and metal that’s more metal than metal itself. The production is dense, the songs are fucking heavy as shit, and whilst this may drag for some people, every time I find myself at the point of nodding off, a super heavy riff comes out of nowhere and blows my dick off.