Eccentric Pendulum – Perspectiva Invertalis Review

As soon as the listener presses that play button, the listener is transported to the world of Eccentric Pendulum and their seven-song album Perspectiva Invertalis. It delivers a labyrinth of modern progressive thrash metal/death metal music and a lyrical theme dealing with human inadequacies, greed, and other negative qualities. This speaks about the turmoil that goes on between mankind, betwixt different races. It also has a primitive timeline, not reflecting the human behaviour in the 20th century but more so in the 16th or 17th century. It discusses the short-sightedness that leads to the ultimate chaos and downfall of everything created. Hence, delivering a completed inverted perspective of what’s good and what’s evil!

As the listener progresses, through the aggressive instrumental, vocal and music composition, arrangement, and devilmanship, that will disembowel the listener’s soul and ears. This musical spectrum is a captivating fusion of progressive, technical, and groove elements, interwoven with thrash-oriented strains of death metal. This unique blend results in a powerful and mind-blowing musical composition that is executed with precision.

The fruit of art instrumentation, compelling vocals, and thought-provoking lyrics all come together to create an immersive sonic experience. Notably, the guitar work stands out as it skilfully polishes the overall sound, as well as featuring a lot of in-your-face seven-string (progressive) riffage and technicality. Polyrhythms and tempo changes result in an unconventional musical concoction, at the same time, the ferocious rhythm section slaps the listener from start to end. The vocals seamlessly fill the void, with a considerable amount of ferocious growls, grunts, howls, and screams. The music is driving forward with crushing drums and bass, adding depth and energy to the composition. An instrumental composition that is provided and delivered by this solid, robust, and fruit of art mammoth devilmanship.

With a runtime of thirty-seven minutes, and comprises seven powerful songs that evoke a gratifying sense of ferocity and barbarism within the listener’s ears. Each song is expertly crafted to deliver a brutal, dark and intense musical experience, making it a truly captivating listening journey. Along with a production, making the excursion more pleasurable and stimulating to the ears – a production, that’s well-executed to perfection, with a wall of sound and crystal clear sound, that crushes you between the walls of the sound. Every note, every breath, and every note can be heard, at the precisely same time pulsating through the listener’s eardrums. This is done by everyone playing not only in parts but as a whole.

Perspectiva Invertalis will instantly appeal to fans of technical death metal, contemporary death metal, and thrash metal. Recommended for fans of Nevermore, Cynic, Death, Opeth and BTBAM.

The album comes to an end with the last song, Under the Pale Moonlight. We want to thank The Metallist PR for letting us review Eccentric Pendulum and their album Perspectiva Invertalis. We will wrap it up by discussing the final three sins and concluding the review.