The Faceless
In Becoming A Ghost
Album · Metal · 2017 · Sumerian Records
On their first album in five years, technical death-metal virtuosos The Faceless return with an almost entirely new lineup to execute founder Michael Keene’s complex sonic vision. Abigail Williams vocalist Ken “Sorceron” Bergeron provides a hellish foil to Keene’s clean, emotive delivery on the chiming, pulsing “Black Star” and staccato death march “Digging the Grave.” The proggy instrumental “(Instru)mental Illness” and a vertiginous cover of Depeche Mode’s “Shake the Disease” provide unexpected moments of dizzying diversion.
In Becoming A Ghost
The Faceless
On their first album in five years, technical death-metal virtuosos The Faceless return with an almost entirely new lineup to execute founder Michael Keene’s complex sonic vision. Abigail Williams vocalist Ken “Sorceron” Bergeron provides a hellish foil to Keene’s clean, emotive delivery on the chiming, pulsing “Black Star” and staccato death march “Digging the Grave.” The proggy instrumental “(Instru)mental Illness” and a vertiginous cover of Depeche Mode’s “Shake the Disease” provide unexpected moments of dizzying diversion.
