Review by Sandre the Giant
The Last of Lucy have been churning out some pretty hefty slabs of tech death in the last few years, and their latest work, ‘Godform’, is here to reinforce and reinvigorate a tech death scene that runs the risk of stagnation. Their last record, ‘Moksha’ was a furious blast of fresh air into a fetid scene, and their latest, out now through Transcending Obscurity, has some work to do.
‘Moksha’ was always going to be a tough act to follow, but if anything The Last of Lucy have upped the ante in both technicality and intensity. Opener ‘Wormhole’ is blazing fast and devastatingly brutal, but it veers in all kinds of directions as well. There’s touches of mathcore in the incandescent ‘Twin Flame’, while the quieter passages of the title track provide even more evidence that The Last of Lucy are maturing and growing in songwriting. Their work has always been technically proficient, and they’ve never been afraid of utter carnage in their riff work either, but it appears that the grasp of atmospheric enhancements has only tightened. This allows tracks like ‘Sentinel Codex’ to display not only a brutal efficiency but a magnificent grandeur almost. The Last of Lucy have such sights to show us…
‘Godform’ is a stunning slab of technical death metal. It possesses all the fretwork chaos you’d expect, a devastatingly heavy low end engine powering it along, and guttural roars tearing the skies above them. ‘Godform’ showcases the very best aspects of technical death metal, a collection of songs that not only wow in musicality but shred their way into your brain and stay hooked in there for a while. Excellent stuff.
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