Song Review // 2020-12-09

Archspire

Relentless Mutation

Involuntary Doppelganger

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I have never heard this band before.

Vocals

I suppose my experience with this fast of a vocal is fairly low. You certainly wouldn't want to be someone with memory or pronunciation issues and do the vocals for this band! The amount of words said in under 4 minutes is astounding. I like the growl to it.

Music

The music is nice. The fast pace of the drums, the guitar riffs. I like double kick. There were two changes in pace and I liked them. 

Lyrics

The lyrics are a whole different beast for me. I am not someone that is into horror themes generally, although I can enjoy something with a sci-fi or fantasy take. This would probably be too disturbing for me (I am a sensitive soul).

Seems to be a story of a doppelganger. In this case, I think it's going with the idea of an evil twin. I know the word can just mean an unrelated person that seems to resemble someone else, but in this case, the other you is up to disturbing stuff. Not only that, there is a sense of being out of control. You are basically taking over other peoples bodies. I think of hanging mangled parts of bodies as you continue on your demon-directed journey. Not my idea of a fun time! I suppose if you like horror themes this may be quite interesting. 

Funny story, I lived in a larger town years ago and regularly I had people thinking I was someone else. She apparently worked at the hospital and looked exactly like me. I don't know if she was my evil twin. We never met. Strangely, I also had someone with the same name and age in the same town, with the exact same spelling. I found out when I went to get blood test results and they started giving me the other woman's results. I realized it when they stated our birth dates. 

I became a kind of hunter
Eating pelts of pleading meat to acquire their appearance
Taking their form with will alone

Alive and crawling out of me
To catch its prey
Shed you foreign poison peltry
Take the rind you want

Stealing identities from every skin it sees
Growing with urgency