Synthwave Vegan is so ridiculously heavy, it's unreal. It's relentless, it's subversive, it's brutal. You can barely follow along listening to the song, it keeps switching it up constantly and throwing a comedic amount of breakdowns at you. The whole song is basically a breakdown. I don't know much about Veil Of Maya but this is definitely a hell of a first impression.
Immediately when the song starts, you get a taste of their pure, unfiltered heaviness, with low chugs and low growls peppered with generous amounts of dissonance. They barely stay in 4/4 time, leaving you sucker punched at every corner. The riffage is ridiculous, it sounds completely alien and cool. The calmest part of this song has constant double kicks, which is a ridiculous bottomline to have.
What I have to assume is the main breakdown out of the many breakdowns, the dissonance breakdown, is the most unique and intense breakdown I've heard in a long while. Polymeter dissonance and chugs that go so hard you should be headbanging but you can't find the rhythm to headbang to, how do you even write something like this? It's utterly insane and it sounds so awesome despite how chaotic it is. The super fast lick that comes at the end of it is the mindblowing cherry on top of the cake. Through my first listen, I was barely able to comprehend the technicality and sonic insanity going on, and then they threw me like a thousand notes in two seconds. Absolutely mad. Lukas screaming on top of all of that seems so calm and casual compared to the instrumentals, which is a crazy statement to make considering how good of a vocalist Lukas is.
I don't really have much to say, it's just relentless heaviness that's so brutal you can't help but laugh at its ridiculousness. I always thought the pursuit of heaviness would more often than not be a stale and dull endeavour trying to get a low enough frequency you could count on your fingers, but this is so refreshing for a immensely heavy song. No doubt a banger.
Rating: 4.5/5
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