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PSYCHOFAGIST : the optician

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Artist: PSYCHOFAGIST (@)
Title: the optician
Format: CD EP
Label: The spew (@)
Rated: * * * * *
"Sometimes they come back"... and I’m glad they do, this just a mini-cd from the forthcoming work that’s gonna be out sooner or later in the next future and it’s a good antipasto. Compared to their early materials Psychofagist have increased the complexity of their sound and added more and more new influences. If once they could have been unjustly compared to Dillinger Escape Plan now we find them definitely located in a grey area where we find grind, math-rock, free-jazz core and fusion. References?! Holy shit, I’ve found so many influences we could add a whole list to the review but think of a bastardized version of Les Claypol playing with Rotten Sound, Dillinger Escape Plan and a Zorn-ian/Brotzman-esque saxophone teaming up with the drummer from Brutal Truth at the speed of light and slowing down with some breaks here and there. Luca Mai from Zu on sax helps a lot to free-jazz the salsa but they?ve more and more arrangements and other guests. This short (too short) mcd includes a studio song, a nice and powerful live recording and the nightmaresque videoclip of "the optician". Kurt and Jake from Converge when speaking about the sound of their band used to define it "spastic-metal", even if Pyschofagist have just a little bit to of Converge their "spastic metal" definition is nothing but perfect to define what they play.


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