At face value, Barcelona-based guitarist and composer Diego Caicedo’s Seis Amorfismos isn’t a metal album. Composed for a string quartet plus electric guitar and growls, its six main cuts swirl and spiral out of control, silhouetting unnerving phrases, insisting, repeating, and improvising until the resulting textural concoction starts sounding like the most harrowing, droning, and hard-hitting sonic formations imaginable. As this frantic dance continues, you begin to realize that despite not having any of metal’s typical elements—not enough to satisfy Encyclopaedia Metallum’s strict rules—the music is as deranged and heavy as anything released this year from more orthodox metal circles, more punishing than any death metal attack and more evil sounding than any black metal conjuration. It’s an album that every fan of extreme metal should hear. – Antonio Poscic
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