Eidola - Eviscerate (2024)^{Release ID: 51352}

I really wanted to enjoy the newest album from Eidola, since it has a lot of the new metalcore trends that I typically enjoy: great beauty/beast vocal dichotomy, production that does not sound like a brick, progressive focus on the instrumentals, and breakdowns that are anything other than fruitless.

It's too bad that Eviscerate suffers in much the same way as all previous Eidola albums. While the album starts off very solid and executes all of these elements mention previously very well, Eidola run out of steam around "Fistful of Hornets" and start making some very safe, unoriginal metalcore. I feel like I was supposed to be impressed by "Golgotha Compendium: Fifth Temple" with it's extended runtime and dynamic usage, but they forgot to include the ear infecting hook to push it over the edge into a progressive metalcore masterpiece.

That said, I do not think this records back half is bad from a structure standpoint. I think the mixing is great and highlights all of the important elements that make the first half as good as it was. I would imagine those looking for a more straightforward or transition point into the world of progressive metalcore would not mind this drop off in quality as much. But for me, Eviscerate kind of transforms into a big letdown.