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Intronaut - Habitual Levitations
March 21, 2013 by Jason Schreurs
Released:March 19, 2013 - Century Media
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Longtime fans of experimental Los Angeles prog-metallers Intronaut will immediately notice a downshift on Habitual Leviathans. Gone are any death metal trappings from their previous material, and in their place a more understated, developed sound that repeatedly builds and burns...
- www.altpress.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare More Musical Than Lyrical LA progressive-metal group Intronaut couldn't have thought of a better subtitle for its fifth studio album. Lyrics notwithstanding, the music itself fits the song titles in an abstract way, like the names of modern paintings. Comprised of former members of Anibus Rising and Uphill Battle, Intronaut has outgrown comparisons to bands like Mastadon and Lamb of God...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-04-04
★★★★★
4/5 Building upon 2010's Valley of Smoke, Intronaut continue to own the prog-metal netherworld between the jazzy acrobatics of Cynic and the doomier textures of Baroness. Near-constant meter and rhythm shifts are an integral part of their new, fourth album, whether Intronaut are sawing and screaming or engaging in delicate arpeggios and melodic vocal harmonies...
- www.revolvermag.com
2013-03-05
★★★★★
Metal pummelling at its best. The technical precision that metal often wears extremely gaudily, is on beautiful show on Intronaut's vast, multi-hued adventure in heaviness. But Intronaut are impressively egoless, only rarely veering into anything resembling self indulgence or vacant shredding wank-a-delica. The often unhappy marriage of metal and jazz really seems surprisingly natural on Valley of Smoke. That's the trick of course, to make music that's hard to make sound inevitable...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2011-01-31
★★★★★
Sadly, though perhaps unsurprisingly, the sly ways of modern marketing have dictated the occurrence of Intronaut being lazily and, somewhat inaccurately, lumped in with their fellow contemporaries Mastodon and Baroness. Displaying a 'for fans of' sticker over the cover art, their 'people' clearly have a rather specific demographic in mind and, granted, it's one that'll mostly lap this album up...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2011-01-03
★★★★★
""Prehistoricisms" is the start of something significant that could prove to be the turning point in Intronaut's career." Most people associate progressive metal with long songs, pretentious songwriting, and over-indulgence musical work, where solos are required to be at least two minutes long per instrument...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
"'Valley of Smoke,' while still an immensely heavy effort, also includes a large jazz influence on the song writing. The guitars dance in and out of jazzy interludes and the bass has a constant upbeat feel to it." The genre of post-metal has been one that has seen tremendous growth over the past decade. Bands such as Neurosis , Isis, and genre front runners Tool have been expanding the craft and creating songs of both epic length and epic creativity...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
Sound: After what I'm sure has been a long wait for Intronaut fans, their third full length album, Valley of Smoke, finally released on October 12th, 2010 in America. It was clear from the start that Intronaut were planning to go in a new direction with this record, and this is very evident in every aspect of the album from vocals and instrumentation, to the production itself. The band have managed to keep their (maybe a little less unique these days.....
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Sometimes that which is unsurprising can be quite the blessing. For their third full-length, post-metal quartet Intronaut maintain the same trajectory as on 2008's Prehistoricisms, the album that garnered them a great deal of attention, thanks to its pairing of traditional metallic sub-genres with jazz-inspired interludes, dichotomous vocal deliveries and a resounding, sludgy drive...
- www.exclaim.ca
2010-11-02