Short and snappy this 3-track appetizer is delivered by CLEAN STATE in support of their upcoming concept work entitled Dead Angel Factory, to be released later this year. If these 3 tracks can be taken representative expect a likewise heavy as not so easily accessible piece of music.
Hailing from Luxembourg, these five gents allow themselves a cross over style of metal, building upon melodic and modern Death Metal as known from Soilwork, In Flames and Lamb Of God, touching Thrash and Metalcore fields, which especially gives much heaviness and groove to Sincerely Yours and Innocent Ignorance, and also dipping into complexity and insanity as diagnosed at Townsend and Dillinger Escape Plan for example. In between voices and instrumental lines get shifted and layered, added by some electronic samples and melodies used as counterpoints. Singing is likewise varied. Based on aggressive shouts by singer Mars, also growls and melodically clean singing find its way on this record, amplified by short choirs in Heresy.
It might sound chaotic but CLEAN STATE do it with precision and on a technically high-skilled level. They really got it!
Those, who are into complex and twisted Death Metal brutality with a slight math approach, be aware watch out for the Dead Angel Factory later this year!