Opening song ‘Internment’ hits hard straight from the start. The female vocals were unexpected, but a very nice contrast with the low and raspy screaming vocals. After a bit less than a minute, the song takes a pause and calms down. It lets you breathe and get ready for the next breakdown. What a banger as an opening track. Just when you think the song is all done and goes quiet, there is one more scream and it just has an awesome effect. ‘The Looking Glass’ starts off more melodic and less in your face. It’s more calm, but still solid, featuring more female vocals, using the growling vocals as an extra dimension to the song. I love the ‘breathing’ part in the song. The tension is building, and you don’t know whether it’s going to snap like the last song, or if it is going to stay calm. The full band comes back, but, I’ll say it again, more calm and yet very solid.

‘Wake Up’ is another banger straight from the start. Screaming “Imposter” to you right as the song begins. It features some fast vocal lines, which is later complemented by the female voice, creating a more soothing chorus. The song goes silent for a bit and comes back with a killer breakdown.

Wake up,
Everything will be just fine,
Unwind your mind,
You will find it,
Just keep trying,
Because you are fighting for your life.

‘Metempsychoses’ creates chaos at the opening of the song and goes calm just a little while after. The music translates perfectly what the lyrics are trying to tell you. It’s hectic, but brings light at the end of the tunnel as well. ‘Cursed Till the End’ has a piano opening. The instrument gets overruled by electric guitars, drums and vocals, yet you can still hear the riff subtle throughout the first part of the song. It fades away eventually, and we get low tuned guitars growling along. The piano doesn’t give up though, and ends up being a centerpiece of this song. Not an instrument that I expected to hear, but I love a band that dares to do something different and experiment and discover their own style. Ghostseeker definitely has their own style and is developing it to the fullest.

‘Glow in Decay’ ft Ionei Heckenberg opens in a less aggressive way. The song takes a calmer pace, calm in comparison to the rest of the songs. As I can imagine, some people would not call this calm music. It is very soothing to me. Though this song actually tells us nothing positive, but is stuck in the dark. A never ending cycle that seems impossible to get out of. ‘Dissension’ opens futuristic and actually calm this time. This time it’s the futuristic sounding tone that leads you throughout the song. The female vocals lead the song and the screams give it extra dimension throughout the dark times that this song, and the alum, talks about. ‘A Reverie in Atonement’; a poetic song title. A reverie is a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts, something like a daydream. Atonement is, if I understand it correctly, getting rid of a sin, or something you feel like that’s a sin. Like the song explains it best itself:

Reverie,
Blackened dreams,
False love you sold me,
Sewn secrets,
Suffocate,
Give back the life you owe me.

Solid vocals on a dreamy riff.

‘Beta War’ is the shortest song on the album, only two and a half minutes. Once again, a solid song that fluently shifts between the female clean vocals and the male grunting vocals. Closer ‘The Prototype’ is last but not least. With the same intensity as the rest of the album, Ghostseeker blasts all out one last time.

‘Divergence’ is their first full-length album, but man, what a banger. This album is full of solid metal core tracks that are heavy. Both in music as in theme. The album talks about dark stuff and puts it into low tuned guitars, clean female vocals and growling low male vocals. The band makes the transition between those two so smooth. They are not afraid to experiment and show us what the style of Ghostseeker is. I would recommend this if you are into bands like Bury Tomorrow, Killswitch Engage, Spiritbox, …

Ghostseeker is:
Tim Campey – Guitars
Celeste Bojczuk – Vocals
Cory Walkeden – Guitars
Daniel Breen – Vocals
Daniel Gay – Drums

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