Five Magics Music: Abnormality "Mechanisms of Omniscience" Review

....And in their third album, everything connects just right, kind of like a puzzle. Welcome to “Mechanisms of Omniscience” the new album from the Technical Death Metal, Abnormality, coming to you from Metal Blade Records. If you’re interested in very heavy riffs that’ll make you quit playing your guitar because you can’t play them, fully automatic assault rifle speed blast beats, or a chick who sounds scarier than you ever will, well you’ve come to the right place. Technical Death Metal is something wonderful, when done right, so let’s explore if it’s done right!

Opening with the track “Swarm,” the album kicks off at full speed with scaling guitars and insane blastbeats before being welcomed by a simple single deep growl. The main riff, while not being quite as intense, fits well under Mallika Sundaramurthy’s intense growls and keeps a perfect heavy pace to the song for everyone to catch a breather from the intensity that the rest of the song holds. “Synthetic Pathogenesis” and “Mechanisms of Omniscience” almost sound like they could be one whole song that was later spit up the middle, while still being very technical and insane, the former of the two is probably the slower and more banger song, but when it ends, the ending blends absolutely perfectly into the intro of “Mechanisms of Omniscience” without the use of any outside sounds, purely instrumental.

“Assimilation” while being purely instrumental, is a great track for the album, and probably live as well. The pace is slowed a bit from the rest of the album, the riffs are a bit more simple for the most part and the drums don’t go at insane speeds, instead the band trades out high intensity speeds for a track that would probably give Sundaramurthy a quick breather and get any audience to the verge of breaking their necks. An instrumental, of course, leads into another song, “Cymatic Hallucinations” kicks it up almost instantly and while the riffs are still intense, this is a much heavier drum song and the entirety of the song the drums feel a lot more front and centre than anything else. This is also one of the only songs on the album to feature an actual guitar solo and man; you thought the riffs were insane, wait till you hear how much the solo shreds. Again, this song hits one of those paces that absolutely destroy, the final riff in the song could probably get a huge group windmilling in sync right up to the final drawn out note.

To fully articulate the intensity of this album, I’d like you to go listen to each of the bands past albums, find the flaws in the album, outside of “I don’t like that the vocalist is a female” because fuck you, now imagine the issues of the past being gone. Abnormality have developed incredibly well as a band over the past nearly 10 years of releasing music, they found their flow and what works for them and it worked out incredibly well. “Mechanisms of Omniscience” is Abnormality’s finest hour, it shows the development and insanity of the band and doesn’t try to be so over the top that it just renders the album, unlistenable. If you’re a fan of Technical Death Metal, or if you just want to hear how this chick could kick Corpsegrinder’s ass in a growling tournament, then “Mechanisms of Omniscience” is definitely an album you’ll want to add to your collection.