Demiurg - Breath of the Demiurg (2007)

When I start listening to this album, the first thing I focus on is the fuzziness of the production. Everything sounds like 
it is being warped through  a gauze door or something similar. I say this because it immediately turns me off the album. 

If you don't know my tastes well, let me briefly qualify the above statement. I am not particular about clarity of 
production. I love albums like Dark Tribe's "In Jeraspunta - Die Rueckkehr Der Tollwuetigen Bestie", Immortal's "Pure 
Holocaust" and so forth. I am not one to be overly particular about such aesthetics, however when done, it needs to convey 
the emotion of the album and be coupled with an appropriate theme. However I don't see the link with this release. Here we 
have an album dealing with a horrific fantasy world which reminds me of something out of a video game (Doom, Halo, Half Life, 
or something like that) coupled with a fuzzy groove based form of death metal. It's like Rollerball or Fu-Manchu gone death
metal. I love those two bands, but "Breath of the Demiurg" is just something I'm not liking.

Delivery of the album is spot on. I can't flaw the instrumentation and despite its obvious (well, obvious to me) production
contradicitons, "Breath of the Demiurg is overall very professional. Guitars, keyboards, drums, bass lines and vocals all are
spot on. Yet none are spectacular. The album basically appeases an appetite for non-fussy tastes in death metal. It's easy to
get into and it has a catchy rhythm at points and is pushing the boundaries of listening tolerance. It is not an album which
will be hated by masses. You can leave that to those with a penchant for the obscure and ground-breaking.

The reason none of this surprises me, is that it is a Dan Swano brainchild. Well, brainchild may not be the right word, I 
really can't verify the extent to which he has had creative input to this album. However, what I can assure you is that it
is definitely from the Swano school of thought. It's non-offensive, run of the mill death metal with the comsic quirks and
nuances that he adds to make it trade-mark Swano. There isn't really much more that need be said about this album. There 
isn't a whole hell of a lot to it. Nothing grabs my attention, other than the aforementioned production, which was really 
in desperate need of comment. If you typically like Swano associated releases, you'll like this. If you are like me, you 
probably won't listen to it more than once a year. If you are the stubborn fiery elitist you will brush this album aside
and go aruge about it's glaring unoriginallity with a bunch of Swano fanboys on metal webzines globally. 

Doses to be taken as desired.

1.	The Dreams Without End	
2.	Flesh Festival	
3.	City of Ib	
4.	Monolithany	
5.	The Primitive Machinery	
6.	Orbiting a Dead Sun	
7.	Scorn Empire	
8.	Monolithany Pt. II	
9.	The Doom that Came to...	
10.	Sarnath (City of Ib Pt. II)