Labels: Pillowscars
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Tellusian should be judged on their own merits, but I can’t not mention Crowpath because (A) they were sorely underrated tech-metal wizards and (B) they share members. Crowpath made proper musical tunes instead of jamming any and all riffs together, and always sounded murderously evil with it. Tellusian are just as busy riff-wise and the vocals are still ultra-shredded, but they incorporate an unexpected and unusual cleanliness and clarity of tone that doesn’t make it ultra-heavy like Crowpath could get. This is no bad thing (because I shouldn’t be comparing the two bands anyway) as you can really hear those spiralling, mainly major-chorded guitar arpeggios take flight in amongst the chaos. There is a refined playfulness to proceedings which welds surprisingly well to the aggression. Seriously great.