Review
Season of Mist’s reissue of Miscreance’s 2022 debut positioned the northern Italian quartet at the crest of a revived technical death-thrash underground. Arriving on the imprint as a fully backed sophomore statement, Reminiscence pushes past nostalgic homage into stranger, more volatile territory.
Andrea Feltrin anchors the assault from behind the kit, pairing throat-shredded barks with restless meter changes and snappy blast beats. Beneath the rapid fretwork of guitarists Tommaso Cappelletti and Andrea Granauro, Jean-Claude Rossignol’s springy, high-tension basslines cut through the churn with immaculate clarity. Sharp thrash charges like "Scalp Ceremony" veer into left-field textures, introducing guest hand percussion, berimbau, and didgeridoo without blunting their velocity.
Across thirty-seven tightly wound minutes, the sequencing pivots from frantic, abrasive polyrhythms into the roomier contours of "Oracle's Rift" and "Symbiosis". The record binds knotty progressive death metal mechanics to primal acoustic colors, navigating intricate structural shifts with relentless speed and precision.
