The End - Within Dividia
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Free Music Review: Brutal, complex, and textured
Hit: 5 Stars
A friend of mine and composer of progressive music once noted that the most difficult part of writing complex and technical music is not thinking of interesting melodies, rhythms, or harmonies, but rather how you connect all of the elements together to form the whole.
The End have certainly mastered the art of transition on "Within Dividia." I've been following this band for several years now, ever since they released the "Transfer Trachea" EP. That mini-album blew me away, and The End quickly became one of my favorite bands. "Within Dividia" is quite a bit different in sound, texture, and tone.
The End, possibly more than any other technical metal band I know of, combine complexity and technicality with atmospherics and experimentation. There are only two instrumental tracks on the album, both of which have a sort of ambient film-soundtrack-ish quality. Most of the songs start off as extremely chaotic and thrashy, with slow and brooding endings.
I mentioned transitions and structure earlier. "Within Dividia" is so well-put-together that it just flows brilliantly from one song to the next. Usually, tech metal bands that include instrumentals on albums are obviously and blatanly using filler to stretch their albums out (Dillinger Escape Plan, anyone?!?) Not so with The End. While far from the best songs on the album, the two instrumentals fit well into the whole. All of the other songs are good, especially "Organelle," "Fetesque," "Dear Martry," and "Of Fist and Flame."
While not as overtly chaotic as "Transfer Trachea," this album is still great. If there's one minor flaw in the album, it's the vocals. Aaron Wolfe's vocals are a little bit too shrill for my tastes. I prefer the old vocalist, but that's a minor complaint.
Free Music Review: Now this is great!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the next CD I'll buy. Definately.
It fills that emptiness that Dillinger Escape Plan left in my noise/mathcore hungry soul. All their music is furious and chaotic like everything DEP did before Miss Machine but these guys have their own developed originality. Beautiful.
I can't believe those people saying that Dillinger is adding more variety to their sound because, in fact, their sound has become more accessible and not much complex anymore. This change is pitiful for those with "trained ears".
If you're looking for something that can stand side to side with your Calculating Infinity CD, this is the album you need. THIS is variety, THIS is complex and NOT THAT mainstream directed garbage DEP presented us this year.
For the TRUE fans of post-hardcore or mathcore or noisecore, whatever ...core. Within Dividia is beautiful and original.
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Free Music Review: Overlooked masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
I wasn't expecting much from this. Ho hum, I thought, yet another math/noise/chaoti-core band. I was right, in a way, since they are very similar to a lot of other Dillinger-worshipping bands of late. But, wow, do they do it well. I'm not as awed but this as I am by DEP, but I like it better, and will probably listen to it a lot more. Maybe my eardrums are warped, but I actually find it very catchy. They understand the importance of tone--I think I can hear a lot of Voivod influence in there. They seem to use some of the same weird chords, with even an occasional spacey moment here and there, and this is what makes this album for me. Such a great sound! And they vary the pace--one moment super fast, the next slower and more contemplative--something you don't see very much in music of this kind. Their sound reminds me a lot of the Swiss band Knut, except I think these guys are a little better. Another great band from Relapse.Free Music Review: Noise-core uh huummmmm.....
Hit: 5 Stars
Yes, its the noise-core that will make you a lover of this genre. I woulnd go as far as sayin luddite clone sounds like the end but yea their also noisecore the other bands are simuler i quess but welll the end has their own sound and its very much original.Free Music Review: I think I need therapy
Hit: 4 Stars
Well, I think this may be it, folks. The End's "Within Dividia" may be the single noisiest, most anarchic album ever made. Even most extreme music is downright catchy compared to this stuff. With the exception of two instrumental tracks, this album contains absolutely no concrete song structures for the listener to grab onto, no catchy riffs, no straight drumbeats. You can try banging your head to it, but the motion will probably end up looking more like a spasm. For the most part, "Within Dividia" is a wall of dense, atmospheric noise, the vocals little more than tortured shrieks, the guitars consisting mainly of strangulated barrages of notes, the drums shifting direction every few seconds with no apparent pattern. There is some Dillinger Escape Plan-style wankery to be found here, but for the most part this album is more about disturbing the pants off you than beating you over the head with technical perfection. Breaking the mold are the two instrumental tracks, "Sense of Reverence" and "Orthodox Unparalleled," which I actually found to be the two finest pieces here ("Orthodox Unparalleled" actually has a few seconds of vocals at the end, but whatever). Too many instrumentals on extreme metal albums are little more than unnecessary interludes, but these two are both dense, intricate, and even melodic pieces that both showcase the band's virtuosity and further the album's overbearing mood. In any case, this is an excellent album from a band that may well be poised to join the extreme music elite. So get in on the ground floor and check them out now.