Mass Insanity - Maveth (2019)
Members:
Hector - Drums
Rafał -Guitars
Mały - Vocals
Viehu- Guitars
Tolas- Bass
MASS INSANITY was formed in October 2003. Maveth is their 3rd full legnth album and was recorded at Antihuman Studio in spring 2018, and mixed and mastered at 666Studio in Ostróda (2018).
Discography:
"In Deadly Silence" Demo - 2004
"99% Rehearsal Promo" Demo - 2006
"Language Of The Dead" Demo - 2007
"Silent Language" Compilation - 2007
"The Hypochrist" LP - 2011
"Antihuman" LP - 2015
"Maveth" LP - 2019
First Impressions:
Never heard of them....but I appreciate what I hear.
When it comes to death metal I have to change my approach to reviewing it. The track by track approach really doesn't work well for this and other deathy and grindy bands, as their music doesn't modulate the same track to track as other genres. So These reviews will be simple and traditional with highlights and subtle critiques on the album as a whole. So with all that said....Let's Do This!!!
Maveth is a modern take on death metal when comes to playing music, which in this case is a mix of brutal and groove oriented death metal songs based on a few interesting riffs in each song, good enough riffs to remember them in the short term but not much else, structurally these songs aren't earworm material. However when the band finds its winning formula it is quite the showstopper, and this album has a few moments of that hiding in here, some of theese stand outs on this are "Control / Manipulate" (intense and powerful guitar work), "Determined To Survive" (aggressive and confrontational guitar passages in the style of Malevolent Creation), and one of the heaviest and most atmospheric tracks on this album is "Cleanseation Course" which contains a heavy use of keyboards to achieve its somewhat brooding atmosphere. And last but not least – in tracks like "Maveth" and "Supported Pathology", the band`s devotion moves towards more traditional and faster death metal styles, focusing more on strong guitar rhythms and classic death metal shreds. The track "When Darkness Cover the World" is a song that can easily identify with the music of Decapitated and there are more moments in this album that remind me of this band as well as a few others. Vocals and drumming on the record sound pretty solid, the guitars and the rhythm section are also well done and don't really dominate the mix, far too many bands in this genre fall prey to far too heavy bottom end mixes. Production of the album is quite good and delivers a realm of death metal at its sonically finest and delivers a sonic landscape that is really a combination of Polish and Swedish death metal sounds.
Track Listing:
Legal Racism 4:43
Maveth 4:47
Control / Manipulate 3:14
Supported Pathology 4:38
When Darkness Cover the World 4:42
Cynical Worms 3:18
Determined to Survive 4:34
Cleansation Course 5:38
Conclusion:
Maveth is an album that definitely deserves to be put in the spotlight, and Mass Insanity as a band certainly need to be recognized and get the attention of the death metal fans everywhere with such good album for this genre. However for me this praise also carries a caveot, even though this album has its high points in song writing and production, in this genre of metal too many comparisons to other bands can make the album sound a bit too similar to far too many other albums out there. Death metal has a big fault because of its extremity, and that is a bad thing. Too many bands release things that sound too much alike, and this one falls in the same trap, it's a nice attempt but in the end its general lack of originality takes it down a couple notches. It's not awful, and most fans of this stuff should hear it, but it's also more of the same.
Score: 3.5/5
