INSENSE – Soothing Torture

After a nice but depressing intro follows an also depressing mid-tempo opener called Helplessness - nearly like older Neurosis. Followed by Making Up For Lost Time, a track very fast in the beginning, slowing down during the length of the track and with interesting parts and a nice guitar solo. Fine but does not fit to the first one. The third track I Deviant seems to be more than a harder mainstream one with clean vocals. Fine melodic guitars. From the fourth track up to the end it’s just Hardcore. Well done but without any further highlights. It’s a shame. This album started quite diversified but ended nearly boring. Not that the hardcore parts are bad, but a little different tracklist would have been better. Maybe INSENSE should not have shot all the guns in the beginning of Soothing Torture. No matter it is a good album anyway.