Crafting The Conspiracy – ‘The Cosmic Key II’ [Album Review]

For their second album, Texan deathcore quartet Crafting The Conspiracy continues the concept begun in their first The Cosmic Key release with the creatively titled The Cosmic Key II – releasing August 28 on Innerstrength Records. Its predecessor was a solid release in the genre bringing memorable riffing, savage breakdowns and the like one would expect from deathcore whilst not reinventing the genre. The new album opens cinematically with its own “Prologue” before kicking into the relentless “Autonomy of Ascension,” where vocal delivery is powerful and guitar arpeggios are used to bring a level of complexity and depth not always present in the genre – which can be prone to more basic chuggathons. It’s a quality to be found throughout the length of The Cosmic Key II where the guitar work f...

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