MOTHER OF ALL

Age Of The Solipsist BLACK LION

Myrkur’s live drummer fills out his melodic death wish list

While playing drums for Myrkur, Martin Haumann has kept himself occupied with Mother Of All. After some promising EPS, Age Of The Solipsist arrives with the unmistakable bass rumblings of Testament and ex-death maestro

Steve Digiorgio alongside guitarist Frederik Jensen. Though only 29 minutes long, the album covers a lot of ground, with each track adopting its own identity and style, from proggy flourishes to techy and thrashy sprints. Curators Of Our World Scope and At The Edge Of A Dream’s fiendish twists give the opportunity to scratch a Schuldiner itch, and the title track allows Jensen’s leads to soar, before the melodeath histrionics of Feel The Pain

ends proceedings on a high. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Soilwork, Skeletonwitch, Death

ADAM REES