UNEARTHLY TRANCE
Season of Séance, Science of Silence (The Music Cartel)
Reviewed by Jason Thornberry

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Playing with maximum restraint is harder than it probably seems, and with sections slow enough for short songs by happier bands to run in the gaps, Unearthly Trance spare no ragged breath showing listeners how vile they can be. In fact, Rion Lipynsky, considers his singing to simply be "vokills," and the other two-thirds of this Long Island metal group play their instruments in ways more akin to cathartic retribution in a dark alley late at night than the head-banging typicality of their peers. Drum sets and various guitars are physically assaulted, so, inevitably, the storeroom of spare equipment is threadbare by the eighth and final track on the album.

8/10

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