Planet Eater’s new release “Blackness From the Stars” is an album full of influences. Front to back you’ll hear the influences of Meshuggah, Converge, Periphery, Morbid Angel, Gojira and so on. Every song has it's own identity with its own mix of these different sounds, let's buckle down and look at a few of these examples!
The album kicks off with “Planet Eater”, a heavy track that starts the album on a high note. The song is fairly consistent as the riff and style doesn't change often, instead choosing to take on a more Converge or Gojira style of sound. The final minute of this track is the only real outlier where if you weren't sold on the Gojira sound, you will be here. There isn't a better song on the album to kick off with so why not introduce Planet Eater with “Planet Eater”. If you needed more proof of the Gojira style, check out “Pile of Bones” and “A Fault To Fix” as you can almost pick out the exact albums you may be likely to hear songs much like these on.
The whole other tone that Planet Eater take on are on songs like “The Spoil”. Planet Eater take on a much more chug happy/hardcore style much along the lines of Meshuggah or Periphery. This is the only song on the album I found particularly boring and honestly, could have done without and don't think it would have affected the pacing of the album whatsoever. “Blackness From the Stars” doesn't contain much filler and outside of “The Spoil” I wouldn't class any of the other songs as filler. The rest of the album kills from the Morbid Angel style intro to the constant and ever changing influences, Planet Eater released a killer record that most Metal fans will enjoy and any fans of the more Hardcore style will kill for.
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