### Abriosis: Vessel

#### 07/02/13 || BamaHammer

To be honest, I think a 20-minute EP is about right for technical death metal. If it was any shorter than that, and the band probably couldn’t finish their masturbating on their fretboards, and if it was any longer, I would never consider even listening to the whole thing in its entirety. Abriosis is a four-piece from Vancouver, Canada, and believe me when I tell you they know exactly what the fuck they’re doing in terms of writing quality technical death metal.

The guitar riffs are beyond simple wankery and feature some genuinely mind-blowing segments that even approach all-out weirdness quite often. Abriosis definitely afraid to use dissonance because they understand exactly how that’s supposed to be used. The chord structures leave you with an uneasy feeling, yet you can’t wait to hear what’s next. The bass, while not particularly virtuosic (at least not to me), is loud and groovy, and the drumming is on par with any of the countless other tech-death drum styles out there.

This is a band that doesn’t really do enough to set themselves apart from the legions of other technical death bands out there just yet, but they’re definitely worth checking out if you’re into this kind of thing. This little EP will give you a taste of what they have to offer in the form of four extremely fucken ace tracks. I’m actually going to check out their back catalog now (which is merely one full-length).

8/10 dentists agree that these fuckers are pretty good on this EP.