From Poland, Rafal Bowman has been steering the space-ship of progressive / power / melodic death metal since 2015. While Bowman has handled composition, guitar, and programming for the entire journey, Chaos Over Cosmos has included many international vocalists at the helm, from Spain and Australia to the US.
On The Hypercosmic Paradox, featured Pakistani singer Taha Mohsin growls about astronomical dramas with the delivery of Archspire or Children of Bodom.
Opening track “Nostalgia for Something That Never Happened” may be instrumental, but expresses solitude, joy, anxiety, and longing.
Just like previous albums, the musicianship here is extreme. Bowman’s guitarwork is exceptionally fast, as if Rings of Saturn took an edible and watched Interstellar. There’s a really sweet middle ground between technical death metal and progressive metal on showcase across The Hypercosmic Paradox, similar to early Animals as Leaders. Closing track “The Fractal Mechanism” is particularly inspiring, revealing an industrial atmosphere, so I’m hoping future material shows off further world-building, alike Ukraine’s Labyrinthus Stellarum.
If your brain has the capacity for lightspeed prog shredding with some death metal / metalcore vocals, give the new Chaos Over Cosmos a listen and grab a CD.