![]() ![]() Take “Intergalactic War!” and “Call of the Squirrel.” Both are five-and-a-half minute clinics on how to bloat a cool idea with meaningless chugs, hollow arpeggios and neoclassical exercises. Some might like this record simply because it’s not your average proggy tech-death, but Multiversal feels to me like a step in the wrong direction for The Beast of Nod. Thirdly, this new album is ten minutes longer than Vampira and you can feel every moment of it. Time signatures get weird and wacky all over the place, placing this record closer to prog than death more often than not. ![]() There are fewer rhythm-based riff patterns and more neoclassical noodles and odd lead axe art, while keys and effects steal a greater percentage of the soundstage. Secondly, Multiversal is a completely different album than Vampira, using a distinct set of tools to craft this spacefaring, cybernetic, interdimensional bioweapon of war. Nobody else captures the same odd note progressions or the same twisted sci-fi humor as this scattered American entity and they are fully aware of-and take full advantage of-that fact. Firstly, The Beast of Nod are just as weird as they were in 2018. There are three things you should know about Multiversal. 1 It’s been three years almost to the day, and finally a new full-length rears its be-tentacled space helmet, titled Multiversal. While rough around the edges at times, that first icebreaker put The Beast of Nod on my map, and the maps of several more of our writers. Wild seems an apt descriptor, especially when you take into account the extensive lore that the project created to accompany their musical arm. The icy hunk of sharp, odd prog-death featured unique songwriting, delightfully insane humor, an entertaining story with fascinating characters, and a thousand hooks sharpened with intent to kill. The Beast of Nod’s Vampira: Disciple of Chaos was one of the coolest indie death metal albums back in 2018. ![]()
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