ADRAMELECH - Psychostasia CD

‘Psychostasia’ is an example of one of adolescence’s defining features, that of consolidating the confusing myriad of ideas and emotions that make up childhood into a complete person with a world view, ideas, and unique outlook. It’s a sign of death metal’s maturation into a style of music no longer focused on being the ‘most’ of anything (fastest, loudest, evilest, technicalist), and rather becoming a unique form of metal with its own language, its own sui-generis ability to communicate ideas through art. Deep in the underground, away from the chaos of metal in the mid-1990s, death metal was solidifying its purpose as a unique form of music which could aspire to artistic potentials that other forms of music simply could not reach.