The Faceless cemented themselves into the global metal scene with their debut album Akeldama in 2006, which was a mix of melodic death metal and deathcore with copious of amounts of technicality to top it off. In 2008 they released Planetary Duality, which saw the Faceless move away from the deathcore influences and embrace a purely melodic style of technical death metal. It recieved 'nearly' universal critical acclaim.
Personally I feel Planetary Duality is vastly superior to Akeldama, mainly due to the album as a whole being less chaotic than Akeldama, with a more smooth quality about it, with their grinding riffs, searing melodies and crushing breakdowns flowing seamlessly. Abandoning the synths prevalent on Akeldama was also a very good decision if you ask me. Planetary Duality presents itself with a very robotic and alien atmosphere, with lyrical themes mostly concerning.. Well, alien forces and whatnot. Clocking at about half an hour, and is an engaging and powerful album which manages to balance a wide variety of influences almost perfectly.
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