I am convinced, 20 Buck Spin can do no wrong! Canada’s ATRÆ BILIS’s second full length “Aumicide” scratches all my various itches for technical Death Metal. The band employs a very simple approach, they want to engulf your senses in a layer of disgustingly fast, impressive, heavy riffs. This album has endless riffs one after the other, granted, not everything is brand new or out of the world but damn, ATRÆ BILIS slay through every single of them with the precision of a Japanese blade. Every song can be broken down into a series of passages that could, very well, on their own be fully fleshed out songs and ATRÆ BILIS I guess scratch the surface on most of these phenomenal ideas. ‘Salted In Stygia’ is a phenomenal example, at around the two minute mark, the band breaks all their aggression apart and gets into a very doomy mode which I was hoping they’d build upon on but they immediately jump into a mind-boggling passage of rhythm and vocals that you’re completely drawn away by their aggression. I heard this album a bunch of times last week to simply understand what the band were doing all through. I love it, they entwine brutality with a sense of melodic technicality that all you can do is sit back and ride along the journey. Tracks like ‘Inward To Abraxas’ start off with a brilliant section of dissonant guitars that force you into the vortex and as you helplessly fall into it, the band dials to a 10 and splits you apart. To me, there are two primary takeaways from “Aumicide”, the first being the exceptional set of ideas that the band incorporates into each and every song. Mind you, each song in itself could be two or three more songs if we dissect the various sections in it closely. The second is the execution with inhuman precision. How they do it throughout is a question for the band themselves. I really want to see them live and experience this firsthand, guys, can you come to Toronto at the earliest please? Recommended for fans of dissonant Metal and all sub-genres of Death Metal. There’s something for everyone and ATRÆ BILIS leave no stone unturned in their effort. I wonder what’s going on in Vancouver, I suppose I have to go there and attend a couple of fests and talk to the people in the scene, most of the bands emerging from there have an exceptional sense of creativity and quality. For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/atraebilis or www.facebook.com/20buckspin