Lye By Mistake
Fea Jur

By Keith Carman

You know those warnings they put up for epilepsy sufferers about shows with flashing lights? Something like that needs to be offered with Lye By Mistake's latest release. A jarring experience, the album is so hyperactive, intense and overwhelming one thinks they're having some sort of seizure as their ears struggle to process every nuance in the world all at once. A little less aggressive than contenders Psyopus, yet no less frantic, the band's disgusting technical ability results in jazz-influenced progressive metal that steals from the likes of Weather Report, 2112-era Rush and a weird co-pilfering of Santana's salsa-infused guitar and Satriani's endless fret board antics. From sublimely intricate, melodic passages rife with nuances to blaring rock/metal boasting searing guitar solos and all points in between, Fea Jur is a rousing musician's musician experience that shocks and angers as much as it rocks and swaggers. (Blackmarket Activities)

A Storm of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Barn Burner - Bangers
Bastard Child Death Cult - Year Zero
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Black Anvil - Time Insults the Mind
Black Cobra - Chronomega
Canopy - Will and Perception
Children of Bodom - Skeletons In The Closet
Coalesce - Ox EP
Culted - Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
DRUDKH - Autumn Aurora
Eco-Shock - Get Shocked!
Expulsion - Wasteworld
Fight Amp - Manners And Praise
Fu Manchu - Signs Of Infinite Power
Green Jellÿ - Musick To Insult Your Intelligence By
Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia
Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
Ichor - The Siege
Javelina - Beasts Among Sheep
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Laudanum - The Coronation
Lye By Mistake - Fea Jur
Maximum Penalty - Life & Times
Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
Nirvana 2002 - Recordings 89-91
Nocturnal Fear - Metal Of Honor
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
Portal - Swarth
Priestess - Prior To The Fire
Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn
Sanctification - Black Reign
Saviours - Accelerated Living
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Slayer - World Painted Blood
Subarachnoid Space - Eight Bells
Threat Signal - Vigilance
U.D.O. - Dominator
Warcall - Demonarchy
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