This Arizona-based progressive thrash band's second album fits very well with the retro aesthetic of its label, Heavy Artillery.
Its logo and black-and-white cover art are an obvious (and loving) homage to Canadian art thrashers Voivod, and while there's some Voivod in their sound, there's also a furious intensity that's derived from Florida bands of the late '80s and early '90s like Sadus, Atheist, and early Death.
The bandmembers can really play, whipping through their long (the album's final track, "Accelerating Universe," goes well past the 13-minute mark), complex songs with precision and skill.
Vocalist David DiSanto is the wild card; his high-pitched, raspy shriek is a real love-it-or-hate-it proposition.
But behind him, the band mixes prog rock and psychedelia with live-wire thrash and machine-gun drumming.
The band's entire aesthetic, including tempo changes, several different moods, and some seriously shredding guitar solo action, is summed up in the nearly seven-minute "Destroying the Cosmos," but Black Future is packed with ultra-impressive performances that will make tech-thrash fans' hearts beat very fast indeed.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Future | Vektor | Play | 05:03 | 11 MB | 35 MB |
| 2 | Oblivion | Vektor | Play | 04:54 | 11 MB | 34 MB |
| 3 | Destroying the Cosmos | Vektor | Play | 06:48 | 15 MB | 46 MB |
| 4 | Forests of Legend | Vektor | Play | 10:16 | 23 MB | 68 MB |
| 5 | Hunger for Violence | Vektor | Play | 05:31 | 12 MB | 37 MB |
| 6 | Asteroid | Vektor | Play | 06:49 | 15 MB | 48 MB |
| 7 | Dark Nebula | Vektor | Play | 10:29 | 24 MB | 71 MB |
| 8 | Accelerating Universe | Vektor | Play | 13:32 | 31 MB | 89 MB |
| 9 | Deoxyribonucleic Acid | Vektor | Play | 04:46 | 10 MB | 32 MB |
| 68 mins | 156 MB | |||||
| 68 mins | 463 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kian Ahmad | Cover Art |
| 2 | Blake Anderson | Drums, Group Member |
| 3 | Frank Chin | Bass, Group Member |
| 4 | David Disanto | Group Member, Guitar, Vocals |
| 5 | Byron Filson | Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Producer |
| 6 | Valerie Little John | Photography |
| 7 | Erik Nelson | Group Member, Guitar |
| 8 | Vektor | Primary Artist, Producer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |