After a decade of silence, Greek metal-heads ACID DEATH return with a new album full of groovy, but not at all easy listening Death/Thrash metal. Some throttled passages come into operation and loosen up the album’s flow, which is sometimes difficult to find.

Towards Hate is a subliminal threatening track and uses not only high speed. The interim rolling rhythms let rotate the neck, but in all, this piece is way too complex to be named as direct head-bang- song. Desperate feelings arise through the intensely shrieked vocals and the progressive build-up including modern ingredients causes not only convenient reactions. Cumbersome structures and dissonant melodies really long for a closer look and avoid direct catchiness totally.
Inside My Walls offers a roller coaster ride of emotions: nice guitar motives sound conveniently and the throttled, viscous groove seems to move my feet irresistibly; in contrast, the apocalyptic vocals and the hacked rhythms act as silencer. In general, I do not feel deeply touched, because the demanding songs set the focus on anxiety or severity.
The title track Eidolon is the best example for the distant and cool impression of the music’s effect: the tune got restrained modern elements, experiments concerning guitar sounds, desperate vocals, but it does not sum up in a corporate composition in my opinion. A jazzy interplay adds a touch of confusion in my nerve centre, maybe too much is happening? I therefore appreciate the breather at the beginning of the track Dying Alone, but after a short while some dry-as-a-bone rhythms spray Pantera-like moods. The keyboards add futuristic flair, but the track does not stay in my memory, because of missing memorable refrains. ACID DEATH score with menacing, crunching heaviness; additionally, the partly oriental touch concerning the percussion enriches the scenery of the concluding tune Sole Truth.

Maybe you fall for Eidolon, if you have a soft spot for technical playfulness, but not for an exaggerated measure of melodies. The quite simple, groovy parts leave a reconciliatory impression and the complicated tracks unravel piece by piece, but this is not easy-listening music at all!