Review Summary: While there is a lot of similarity, there are some interesting and strange ideas here.
Expositionsprophylaxe is an amalgamation of death metal, grindcore and use of dissonance and strange song structures. While I do like the fact that most tracks are short so more ideas can be carved out, this isn't really fully realized most of the time.
There’s the groove of death metal and the aggressiveness of grindcore, but there’s some songs that leave me interested enough to continue with this album. Life Distentagrating has strange dissonant riffs, and Hypophysis has a subtle and constantly shifting song structure that is a bit confusing to listen to. The album does slow down here and there, such as Disharmonization. Near the end there are some instrumentals to break things up. But don’t get me wrong, there are parts that do feel a bit too same-y. Such as The Unequalled Visual Response Mechanism sounding a bit too similar to the very next track, Onset of Serious Problems. But if you don’t care and just want to vibe, it's certainly not bad.
The album is a bit more scatterbrained on what it wants to do, but there are rewarding moments. The band wants to do a blend of death metal and grindcore, but they also want to experiment. So that means that they throw in that blend of Death/Grind, and some other tracks are thrown in to get a little weird. But these weird tracks are few and far between compared to the former. I would much rather take a “throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks” approach than me waiting for the interesting moments in an album that feels too similar a lot of the time.
For the actual music there’s fast and changing song structures and growling vocals. People complain of it being a generic record, and I don’t blame them. But if you bother to sift through all of that there is something there, just buried a bit deeper than most people want to bother with.
Recommended Tracks: Accelerated Evolution, Successive Substitution, Hypnosis, Disharmonization.
