Artist: The Interbeing
Title: Edge Of The Obscure
Genre: Technical Metal
Release Date: 1st August 2011
Label: Mighty Music
Album Review
THE INTERBEING has been coming up in the world of metal ever since they were noticed due to winning “Best Metal Act” at the Underground Music Awards. With so many fellow Danish metal bands to compete against and surpass, INTERBEING had a bit of a ways to go. However, their debut album ‘Edge Of The Obscure’ is an enjoyable piece of industrial and technical metal that draws on influences from MESHUGGAH with sharp semi-Mathcore guitar passages and the industrial computer haunting of bands like SYBREED, who also make a similar blend of harsh snarls and the cleaner vocal passages. With a range this diverse, it instantly makes INTERBEING as being an attractive versatile band with a variation of sounds to go off of, rather than like so many other bands that can be predictable after the first three tracks and leaves the next six to be a bore. On ‘Edge Of The Obscure’ INTERBEING does the best they can at bringing hard hitting verses and catchy, melodic choruses that can be as compelling as a band like FEAR FACTORY.
The album beings with the eerily quiet ‘Elusive Atmosphere’; it starts off slow, but eventually the whole sci-fi techno beat gets louder and louder and then it just explodes into the virulent technical metal that is INTERBEING. Harsh, jarring guitar chords mix with subtle industrial influences, along with vengeful snarls that are similar to that of THREAT SIGNAL and then suddenly change into softer, easier-to-bear vocals that sound a bit like that of recent RAUNCHY. The clean vocals don’t always seem like they have a strong presence, but they sound best when the industrial and keyboard influences are taking the lead versus the guitars which tends to obscure them such as on ‘Rhesus Artificial’. Of course, sometimes obscurity is INTERBEING’S best kept secret, such as on the track ‘In The Transcendence’ where the band fades out the vocals to almost a murky whisper amongst pummelling guitars and mystical samples that draw more attention than usual because they are in the forefront of the music. Then there is the almost completely instrumental ‘Ledge Of Oblivion’ which keeps a very simple, yet effective keyboard pattern amongst the drilling sounds of the guitars and drums with the harsh vocals included, but they pale in comparison to the beauty of the keyboards which stay constant throughout the entire barrage.
Overall, INTERBEING is a fresh touch that merge multiple sounds for a great album. It’s unsure where they will go in the future considering they have so many roads to choose from as far as picking a particular genre and sticking with it, but hopefully they’ll continue to stay as versatile as possible while avoiding any complete repeats from this debut album. Fans of industrial and technical metal will flock all over this, mainstream and underground, as it features a slick enough sound to be considered “upscale”, but also tries to be as unorthodox as possible so keep it from being one sided and too trendy in the expectations of the industrial metal industry.
Tracklist
01. Elusive Atmosphere - 1:22
02. Pulse Within The Paradox - 5:01
03. Tongue Of The Soiled - 4:51
04. Face Deletion - 5:10
05. Fields Of Grey - 5:38
06. Shadow Drift - 4:52
07. Swallowing White Light - 5:39
08. In The Transcendence - 3:13
09. Celestial Flames - 4:33
10. Rhesus Artificial - 4:39
11. Ledge Of Oblivion - 3:19
Line-up
Dara Toibin - Vocals
Jacob Aa. Hansen - Bass
Boas Segel - Guitar / programming
Torben Pedersen - Guitar / vocals
Kristoffer Egefelt - Drums
Website
www.theinterbeing.com
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 9
Total: 8.5 / 10
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