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Xenosapien ReviewEvery once and awhile a band releases a new album, and the people tell their friends, "High on Fire must've been on speed for Blessed Black Wings" or "Metallica must've been drunk or in therapy to release St. Anger". The new Cephalic Carnage has arrived and all this reviewer can say is there is no drug in the world that can create this kind of chaos. "Xenosapien", the follow-up to Anomalies is a compact slice of complete insanity. Basically, this release pushes Cephalic Carnage into a whole new territory as a metal band.
To describe what kind of genre Cephalic Carnage goes into, you would have to list off about 5 or 6 genres just to come close to what it really sounds like. While Anomalies did have more memorable songs, "Xenosapien" is the more complete package. When the band experiments, it works to perfection whereas Anomalies more experimenting moments (Piecemaker or Kill for Weed) just slowed the album down.
The musicianship is as tight as it gets. What I love about Cephalic Carnage on this album is they play very tight throughout the album but still have great songwriting. While I appreciate Psyopus and bands similar to that, they just can't write memorable songs. "Touched By an Angel" and the soon to be classic "G.O.D." displays a great sense of awareness of not over doing it. Where does "Xenosapien" really show that Cephalic Carnage has progressed? The album's closing tracks display that the band was truly ready to make a complete package. Tracks 8 through 11 are some of the most brutal and amazingly written songs the band has ever produced. "Ov Vicissitude" is a complete part of your balanced metal meal. With shredding guitar solos and blasting beats, the band makes you quiver to your knees and surrender. The production for the album also has to be commended for the simple fact that every instrument is heard very clearly.
Speaking of which, my MVP of the album has to go to Nick Schendzielos, the bass player, who has such a technical presence throughout the album. It is refreshing to hear the bass not overdone or unheard on such a brutal metal album. It should be stated that the guitar work on the album is very much worth challenging Necrophagist for most insane guitarists right now. Both John Merryman and Lenzig Leal are amazing as they have been in the past, but I just thought the guitars and bass were greatly improved.
We still have a long way till' the end of the 2007 metal season, but I would love to see some band challenge Xenosapien for album of the year. Overall, I give the album a 4.9 out of 5 ( 0.1 deducted for the cost of the clean-up)Xenosapien OverviewThe incomparable CEPHALIC CARNAGE have returned to claim theirplace as the leaders of metal's new era of extremity with their ferociousnew record Xenosapien. CEPHALIC CARNAGE synthesize everything great aboutmetal; from spastic virtuosity to warp-speed grinding to the heaviest rockriffs ever unleashed. Xenosapien's mind-bending, technical insanity/masterycollides head on with the band's brutal metal roots to form their mostimmediate, hard-hitting, and finest album to date. Xenosapien isunquestionably one of the best heavy records of 2007, and proves once andfor all that these unconventional visionaries are set to lead metal wellinto the 21st century.--This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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