The End - Transfer Trachea Reverberations From Point: False Omniscient
Relapse Records 2003

I think it's fairly obvious, with this release and The End's upcoming album, that Relapse is scrambling like mad to find a replacement for Dillinger Escape Plan.

Everything is there. Blast beats, jazzy little segues, polyrhythmic time signatures, everything in construction, but lacking completely in significance. The band goes through the motions so completely dead that you have to wonder if they don't find playing this shit, much less sitting through the tracking process, boring as hell.

There is no finesse, no defining style, just loads of borrowed elements from DEP (I won't mention Cynic, since they don't even begin to touch the legendary group) and a dozen or so other proto-jazz-metal bands.

Quite possibly the most boring album you'll hear this year. Not bad, not good - completely dull and lifeless.

Keep searching guys! You'll find something!