Well, another music post! This one is about the Washington-based prog/tech death metal band Sculptured.

How did I find them: Basically, trawling through Agalloch’s wiki (another band I adore) and clicked on Don Anderson’s other band which happens to be Sculptured.
What intrigued me: Well, I was looking at the album descriptions and upon viewing the one for their 2000 album ‘Apollo Ends’ it mentioned that two of the tracks on it use extremely complex classical music techniques. Being a classical music nut, I had to try and download their three albums.
How much have I heard: Only their latest album. Why? Because no-one seems to seed the others although I do have 63% of their first album ‘The Spear Of The Lily Is Aureoled’ but that hasn’t moved in a few days. :(

First impressions: Mind-fucking-blowing! Its like if you merged Agalloch, Cynic, Wolves In The Throne Room and Spiral Architect. Well, something very similar anyway. The track “The Shape Of Rage” reminded me a lot of Cynic’s first album with Vintersorg. The whole album flows from track to track while not exactly jamming itself into anyone genre. Quite ingenious!

I love discovering new music! It feels so rewarding…well sometimes anyway.

As last time here is their wiki and my favourite track of the (only) album I have of theirs which is ‘Taking My Body Apart’ off their 2008 album “Embodiment”

01-Taking-My-Body-Apart.mp3