Mercury - Digipak CD

PSYGNOSIS make a decidedly progressive kind of death metal. For one thing, the French band has no singer - instead, they have a cellist. This heady configuration gives Mercury a sublime beauty. Their first album for Season of Mist is full of wide, sweeping vistas that are riddled with metallic muscle but also infused with deep sensitivity. An exhilarating panorama and a breath of fresh air for progressive death metal.

FFO: NE OBLIVISCARIS, OPETH, PERSEFONE, DYSRHYTHMIA