On the 11th of November the tech/hardcore metal band The Faceless released its new cd titled "Planetary Duality" to the masses. It is the 2nd full length (if you can call them that) that the band has released. The cd has 9 tracks: Prison born, The Ancient Covenant, Shapeshifters (instrumental),Xenochrist, Sons of Belial, Legions of the Serpent, Planetary duality 1 and Planetary duality 2. As you first start to listen you instantly notice that this cd is much different than their previous release "Akeldma"(2006) because "Planetary Duality" replaced a lot of the Brutality from "Akeldma" with a spacey technical sound. An almost floating solo guitar is repeated through out the cd and weird time signatures become routine. Although this does not make for a bad cd. "Planetary Duality" in my opinion is an excellent cd. The mix is perfect, the guitar riffs will melt your face off and I didn't think it was possible for their drummer to get any better. The Breakdowns however not as numerous as in "akeldma" are sill there and are quite good, nothing bone crushing though. The thing about this cd that bothers me is the clean vocals. The singer they chose to do the clean vocals (in my opinion) belongs in some stupid wanna be ozzy cover band. He is absolutley out of place in the cd. In Sons of Belial you are enjoying a nice melodic breakdown and then out of no where this obnoxious brittney spears chirps in and ruins it for you. Yes there was clean vocals on the last cd but only for a little bit on one of the tracks but it blended with the song. These new clean vocals on a good number of the songs in "Planetary Duality " just seem out of place and poorley done. All in all Planetary duality is still a good overall cd i give it a 8 out of 10.
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