Such is also the case with this relatively young band from Jacksonville, Florida. Haxprocess has just finished work on their second album ‘Beyond What Eyes Can See’, their debut with Transcending Obscurity Records after their self released ‘The Caverns of Duat’.
It features four songs, which in the genre of grindcore would mean the album would be over in less than five minutes. Here, however, in the realm of mind-boggling, cosmic death metal, each song clocks in around the 10-minute marker or even far beyond it. The fresh foursome also takes their time to ease you into the record. With such lengthy tracks, there’s no need to blow your load in the opening salvo.
As the opening bell tolls on ‘Where Even Stars Die’, a very moody intro builds up that is just as likely to herald in a doom record until the pace starts to pick up as all the instruments join in while solos, blast beats and unhinged guitar leads drop in out of hyperspace.
When you play at a katatonic pace like many doom bands do, it’s not so hard to pass the ten-minute marker. The trick there is to keep your audience entranced with only minimal variations.
Progressive death metal, like this record here, requires a different approach. If you’re going to play faster than the speed of light, then you have a lot of ground, no galaxies to cover in that now nigh insurmountable span of ten minutes.
Being from Florida, they make no attempt to hide how much they have worshipped at the Altars of Madness. Each of the four compositions is imbued with the power and knowledge Morbid Angel‘s monoliths have bestowed upon them, but they take it so much further into so many different directions.
As if they themselves were exposed to some incomprehensible cosmic horror, the songs take insane twists and turns, sometimes even just within the time frame of just a few seconds.
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| 9 | You’ll need an intergalactic star map to be able to follow these guys as they descend into a maelstrom of total madness, while expertly steering their sophomore album’s course true, sometimes desperately crawling away at a snail’s pace from a supermassive black hole or slingshotting around the brutest of death metal. |
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