Organasm

First listen to Organasm reminded me of post metal feel or rather the fact of not having any feel just strange flow to the sound. The guitars are down tuned and vocals border between screams and growls. The overall lack of feel which I initially felt in the music was compensated by the awesomely integrated aboriginal influences, which made me listen to them again. The fascinating part of their music is that you get the feel of the gracefully blended tribal drum beats, eastern musical instruments and psychedelic guitars only by subsequent repeated listens. The music is very progressive with passages but songs are hardly that long.

The record does not emphasize on vocals, even though they do add to the overall experience. The usage of instruments are definitely the highlight of Organasm. The ambiance is not the dark deathly kind but more on the happier progressive metal side, if you like Riverside or ISIS kind of sound then you might just fancy Alchemist too. "Austral Spectrum" is a great track to start the record, it kind of encompasses all the specialties of Organasm, the slow lazy guitar riffs, screaming vocals drowned in the guitar sound, tribal beats, psychedelic guitar interleaved with some flute like instrument, musical passages, basically the Organasm experience in a song is "Austral Spectrum".

The lyrics are related to evolution and surrealism, actually the abstract nature of the sounds blends very well with the theme of surrealism. The song names on itself gives away their inspirations, "Evolution Trilogy" is like one single song and smoothly transitions into each of its parts. I really enjoyed the Part 3 with the electronica sound around the half way mark leading to the trademark heavy guitar which abruptly switches to a mellow tone towards the end. On "Single Sided" Adam Agius does get ample opportunity to exhibit his skills on vocals, one cannot help noticing the earmark quality ear splitting scream towards the end which sadly is very less used in Organasm. "Tide In, Mind Out" has brilliant screams and bloody good backing vocals. For a change the instruments are not diverting the attention but it was only a transient state before the elegance of Alchemist's instrument musicianship comes back with "Eclectic" which more than lives up to its name.

The record has a very striking feature, there is no overuse of guitar riffs, nor the brilliant vocal screams, all the musical influences are used in the perfect harmony with the overall ambiance of the album. When you combine genres and musical influences its very easy to get carried away which actually crucifies the very meaning of music. The feel won't be consistent, one instance you will need to be in the bluesy folk or Jazz mood and the next instant back to death metal growls, this is exactly what I felt when listening to Orphaned Land's Mabool. In short Organasm is very well made record which keeps you interested in the music by quirky and smooth transitions between songs and a well balanced production quality. The record grows on you with multiple listens. It will be a good half a dozen listens before you start appreciating the idiosyncrasies of Alchemist terrain embedded with ample melody, good musicianship, capable unexploited vocals which leaves you craving for more.