source	creator	size
babylon	stephano gaspari	8.5

 

 

has it ever happened to you to discover a great band at their second album, to review it, and then to find in your hands their first album... and to review this last one too? turn the time and try to be me. what characterizes the passage between an album and the follower, is the evolution usually. this time is just the opposite. if their recent "cellular memory" is truly amazing (have you checked out our review?), the four guys from london of this "refining the theory" are way more direct, younger, more metal, but still fuckin' cool. but let's try to be in the 2000 year (and not in 2002) and let's imagine that "refining the theory" has just been released. in that case, we'd say...

 

"miocene promise us huge things and the future will prove what i'm saying. proposing a genre in which is very easy to do just common music, copying other bands, this band from london, with this mini (six tracks all right, but it's still a 50 minutes release, considering even the ghost-track), proves that no precise borders fit into their compositions. still receiving a big influence from maynard james keenan's band (i'm talking about the tool of the beginning, those of "opiate" and "undertow"), this four pieces, leaded by the vocalist ben (still a bit rough), tries to dilate everything, not forgetting the more impactful and devastating parts, in which the spirits of the first deftones and korn is widely evoked.

 

very prepared under a technical point of view, they avoid unuseful technique performances and avoid even a boring virtuosity; anyway, the level of the music is high, the rhythmics are complex and the songs never sound common or "already heard". 

 

"refining the theory" wisely unites brain and body, leaving for some psychedelic lands somwhere... what I'm talking about is the realization of the characteristics that such a genre, the modern metal, should feature every time.

we can expect great step forwards from miocene: let's keep an eye on them!"

 

... this is actually what's happened, and the latest "cellular memory" proves it 100%, even though we can't consider it that metal anymore. finally, miocene: one word, one guarantee!