MetalSucks

Here’s what I think it wrong with Embodiment, the new album by Sculptured, a progessive death metal semi-supergroup featuring members of Agalloch, Winds, and Age of Silence:

1. The clean singing. Vocal duties are shared by Don Anderson and Tom Walling; there’s not a damn thing wrong with their death-growls and I admire the band’s decision to steer clear of auto-tune, but they perpetually sound barely on-key, and, frankly, it can get a little irritating.
2. Keyboardist Andy Winter, while generally pretty good, from time-to-time overindulges in that whole organ sound thing, and while I’m sure he means to reference Goblin (whom Sculptured have covered), it can sound a little too jam-bandish, a little too much like Particle for its own good.

Now, here’s what’s right with Embodiment, the new album from Sculptured:

1. ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING ELSE.

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