Country: France
Genre: Technical / Progressive Death Metal
Release: 2026
For fans of: Fallujah, Rivers of Nihil, The Zenith Passage, Vale of Pnath, The Faceless.
PRESS RELEASE : The French The Scalar Process return to discography with their second full-length album, “Agnomysticism”, following their 2021 debut “Coagulative Matter”. Moving in the broader space of space/sci-fi Technical and Progressive Death Metal, the band combines complex guitar themes, atmospheric tremolo pickings and ambient/new age synths with harsh vocals and brutal bursts. With several strong moments and guest appearances (such as the clean vocals of Andy Thomas of Rivers of Nihil), “Agnomysticism” aims to satisfy fans of modern, technical extreme sound.
Tracklist :
- Physical Conquest
- Far From The Flesh
- Incessant Continuum
- Illness
- Affluent Marea
- A Breathing Moment
- Agnomysticism
- Lack Of Colors
- Sigil
- In A Light Frame
REVIEW : Musically and performance-wise, The Scalar Process have “the package” and they prove it. The guitar twins of Lucas Martinez and Eloi Nicod bring tremendous rhythmic chugs and fluid, otherworldly melodies that strongly recall The Zenith Passage and The Faceless. The guitar solos are by far the album’s strongest card (listen to the climax of “Incessant Continuum” or the title track “Agnomysticism” and you’ll understand). Compositionally, however, they don’t innovate. The trick of “breaking up” the death metal brutality with atmospheric synths has been done to death, while the two purely ambient/new age tracks (“Affluent Marea”, “Sigil”) feel completely unnecessary and somewhat boring, dragging down the album’s flow.
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The album’s big “thorn”, though, which puts a criminally low ceiling on it, is the production. The band’s guitarist, Eloi Nicod, who took on the mixing and mastering, has created such an over-compressed (brickwalled) and treble-heavy sound that it’s honestly tiring. The treble and the tremolo on the guitars dominate so aggressively along with the synths that they create a constant, annoying noise, completely burying the dynamic of the drums, which sound “plastic”. For die-hard fans of the genre, “Agnomysticism” will serve as a good addition to their collection. The rest will probably be annoyed by the production choices that do a disservice to the musicians’ excellent talent.
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