Pathogenic - Discography [2011-2014] V01dV

Pathogenic - Discography (2011-2014)

Since their inception in 2008, Massachusetts' Pathogenic have recorded and released two albums, played well over 100 shows and completed two US east-coast tours, including dates in Canada. In 2009 they played the New England Deathfest in Providence, Rhode Island, and in 2012 they were featured on the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and the Worcester Deathfest in Worcester, Massachusetts. In both 2012 and 2013, the band opened the Worcester, MA stop of the Summer Slaughter Tour. Hard at work on material for a new release, the band is excited for the future and eager to bring their show to your hometown.

Track Listing
Cyclopean Imagery 320 KBs

1. Lucidity I 03:45
2. Lucidity II - The Aether 03:37
3. Rapid Eye Movement 05:54
4. Premonitions - Event 04:10
5. Lucidity III - Searching Dimensions 05:41
6. Serpents 04:58
7. Fish Frenzy 05:32
8. Sterile Earth 05:21
9. Godless 06:37
10. Industrevil (Hey Buddy) 04:42
11. Premonitions - Horizon 03:56
12. Lucidity IV - Cyclopean Imagery 06:24

The Solipsist Dream VBR

1. Albatross 04:32
2. Cobwebs We Keep 04:27
3. Tempest 05:01
4. A Piece of Hell 04:35
5. The Solipsist Dream 06:45

Plurals VBR

1. South Park Theme 01:40
2. Dig (Mudvanye Cover) 03:27
3. Bulls on Parade (Rage Against the Machine Cover) 03:58
4. (sic) (Slipknot Cover) 04:20

History
The Lowell, MA, quintet combines death-metal brutality.... and prog-metal experimentation for a sound that is as captivating as it is jarring. The band keeps a dark, heavy base intact across the five songs on “The Solipsist Dream,” and then builds contrasts against it. In “Tempest,” the dynamic shifts pop up like unexpected visitors _ a keyboard riff here, a guitar stutter there. In “A Piece of Hell,” the whole arrangement of the song expands and contracts, going from steady grooves to spastic jams to conjure a sense of shifting ground. While the sonic terrain keeps changing, the thematic dread is consistent. These five songs are a mental breakdown on tape. It’s all a to-and-fro of lashing out and getting beaten back. There’s an anger in the opening “Albatross’ that transforms across the songs into a melancholy acknowledgement (the message here seems to be we’re all kinda screwed) in the epic title track that closes the E.P.

Pathogenic’s Cyclopean Imagery is an ultra-technical, polyrhythmic exercise of not only music theory, but of the listener’s stamina. The question is not how long the album is, but of how your brain can formulate the complexities of progressive metal.

Have I got some intelligent shit for you today! It’s Djenty Progressive Metal from a city called Lowell, Massachusetts. I was half starting to get the idea that only British bands, and perhaps a few Australian ones, were truly masters at creating Djent. I got it wrong, there’s at least one American band too!

Members
Anthony Simone - Drums
Chris Gardino - Guitar
Dan Leahy - Bass
Jake Burns - Vocals
Justin Licht - Guitar

Discography
Cyclopean Imagery (LP - 2011, Independently Released)
The Solipsist Dream (EP - 2012, Independently Released)
Other / Covers
Plurals (2014)