Canada’s Divinity has just released their second full-length album titled
The Singularity. While their first album,
Allegory, was good—but not in a totally inspired manner—their present album is light-years better in quality and originality, as it nicely fuses down-tuned melodic death metal with the technical-hyperspace thrash metal approach similar to Denmark’s Mnemic. What distinguishes Divinity from Mnemic, however, is that Divinity mostly omits clean-vocal passages—except for the song “Embrace the Uncertain,” but the clean vocals contain a raspy quality that is consistent with the more dominant vocal approach—as the lead singer, Sean Jenkins, favors the gruff barking that is characteristic of bands of Divinity’s ilk that do not fully commit themselves to the death metal paradigm, along with the complimentary guttural death metal approach for the mid-paced and faster-paced sections of each song, such as “Beg to Consume,” “Emergent,” and “Monsters Are Real.” In fact, there are even times during the album’s play that the vocals put me in mind of latter-day Death’s Chuck Schuldiner (R.I.P.) (please bear in mind that I am absolutely
not qualitatively comparing Divinity to Death, as Divinity is nowhere near as precedent-setting as Death was). The pace of the album as a whole is nicely furious, as it is complete with interesting polyrhythmic guitar sections, complex time signatures that are not too dissimilar of Meshuggah, and copious gallop drumming. Divinity’s
The Singularity is recommended for fans of technical melodic death and thrash metal.
Canada’s Divinity has just released their second full-length album titled The Singularity. While their first album, Allegory, was good—but not in a totally inspired manner—their present album is light-years better in quality and originality, as it nicely fuses down-tuned melodic death metal with the technical-hyperspace thrash metal approach similar to Denmark’s Mnemic. What distinguishes Divinity from Mnemic, however, is that Divinity mostly omits clean-vocal passages—except for the song “Embrace the Uncertain,” but the clean vocals contain a raspy quality that is consistent with the more dominant vocal approach—as the lead singer, Sean Jenkins, favors the gruff barking that is characteristic of bands of Divinity’s ilk that do not fully commit themselves to the death metal paradigm, along with the complimentary guttural death metal approach for the mid-paced and faster-paced sections of each song, such as “Beg to Consume,” “Emergent,” and “Monsters Are Real.” In fact, there are even times during the album’s play that the vocals put me in mind of latter-day Death’s Chuck Schuldiner (R.I.P.) (please bear in mind that I am absolutely not qualitatively comparing Divinity to Death, as Divinity is nowhere near as precedent-setting as Death was). The pace of the album as a whole is nicely furious, as it is complete with interesting polyrhythmic guitar sections, complex time signatures that are not too dissimilar of Meshuggah, and copious gallop drumming. Divinity’s The Singularity is recommended for fans of technical melodic death and thrash metal.