Lyrics & Music Nocturnus - Thresholds (1992) (B000008IZV)

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This album was a pioneer. I mean, it incorporated a lot of dark atmosphere into an amazing whirlwind of ever changing riffs and complicated dissonant scales. The lyrics dealt with the world of science-fiction and horror and the skills of the two guitar players was unheard at that time (1992). It’s sad that this great album is so little known, because it is really a masterpiece, one of the best albums of its genre, and one of the most underrated records ever. This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed “The Key” and it keeps the basic sound but with a more solid construction.

Consisting of 8 songs including an instrumental one, “Thresholds” is in the league of old-school technical Death Metal when brutality was still a part of the package. This album has that combined with the perfect amount of melodic parts in the form of intricate harmonies, weird scales and jaw-dropping solos provided by the guitar-wizard Mike Davis and Sean McNenney. With the level of this musicians it is clear that this album is very guitar-oriented, and of course we can hear a lot of experimentation in the guitarwork. The bass is going over and under the wall of powerful riffing, keeping a very heavy base and sometimes showing great prowess doing fast stuff or jazz-fusion rhythmic patterns. The drumming of Mike Browning has a very original style, mixing standard thrash metal measures with amounts of Death’s Bill Andrews-kind of drumming. Louis Panzer’s keyboards thankfully are just to add atmosphere and never become the main instrument. The vocals are a Death/Thrash bark in the vein of old-Death or Pestilence.

Variety is all over the record. The song-structures are basically very complicated with the exception of “Alter Reality” and “Gridzone” which are a bit more than generic. “Climate Controller” for example has 10 solos and countless riffs. This stunning anthem is one of the most complete songs ever with one killer riff following another and almost impossible soloing. I would like to see if Dream Theater is capable enough to play this song. “Tribal Vodoun” is a catchier song, it’s a bit more straight forward, wandering through a gloomy atmosphere and ending with a monstrous climax. Here we can hear more unorthodox scales than in the previous song. “Nocturne in Bm” is an instrumental song where Davis and McNenney show their dexterity. It has more like a progressive rock base with Rush-like keyboards and Jason Becker-like solos. “Arctic Crypt” is the most easy to like song, starting with maidenish scales, following with classic death metal riffs that converge into a beautiful acoustic passage; after that a solo and another absolutely marvelous outro with a kind of riffing usually imitated by some far more weaker melodic-Swedish Death Metal bands.

The second half of the album starts with “Acquatica”. A 7 minute opus that merges together headbangeable riffs with complex scaling into a soundtrack for apocalypse-like song. This song has the most incredible sweep pickings I’ve ever heard. “Subterranean Infiltrator” is another high point. The relentless guitars attacking with harmonic dissonances and bizarre scales joined by the skillful bass manage to create an ultra-thick heavy riffing alternating with smooth technical arrangements which appear like a heavier version of a Theory in Practice work. “Alter Reality” is the easiest to hear song but it’s full of amazing shredding. Finally “Gridzone” has a more brutal approach but combined with slow odd scales and harmonic tricks.

This album is very technical but that doesn’t mean this is a listening exercise. All songs are at the same time catchy and complex. This is First Class Death Metal which greatness is just a little diminished by a mediocre production. However if you like shredding, old-school Death Metal, Progressive Metal (or Rock) and headbanging, then GET THIS INMEDIATELY.

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Dan Izzo (vocals) [Tortured Souls]

Mike Browning (drums) [Morbid Angel, Incubus, After Death, Acheron]

Mike Davis (guitar)

Sean McNenney (guitar)

Louis Panzer (keyboards)

Chris Anderson (bass)

1 Climate Controller 7:52

2 Tribal Vodoun 5:18

3 Nocturne in Bm 2:51

4 Arctic Crypt 4:19

5 Aquatica 7:18

6 Subterranean Infiltrator 5:36

7 Alter Reality 4:28

8 Gridzone 6:06

Recorded at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida, December 1991.

Produced by Tom Morris & Nocturnus.

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