A Massive and Driving Rock Release from AMEEBA

An album release from AMEEBA comes through with a slew of rock-based influences, and as the record unfolds, you get elements of thrash, garage, riot Rock, grunge, experimental, psych-rock, and plenty more all rolled up in this one fat record that really takes you on a musical trip.

Ad Mortem Festinamus is an album that doesn't waste much time, as it brings you in with its first track called "Procrastination".

This is an amazing track to introduce the record with simply because it does boast a lot of these amazing staples that the rest of the album holds to.

It's got a grungy, sort of chorus-affected guitar tone that brings me back to the late 90s underground alt-rock scene, and I love that feeling.

As that thick and heavy sonic drive comes at you, you have these poppy and bright vocal harmonies that bring a completely different texture to the track, and this, indeed, is something you hear fairly often throughout this record, along with plenty more.

Even though this first track does bear some of those staples, this is an album you should listen to from start to finish.

Listening to only one or two tracks may give you a bit of a gist for what you can expect, but it will not give you the full spectrum of what the album has to offer as a whole.

This is a massive escape. When you listen to it, it pulls you away from wherever you are and whatever you're doing and puts you in this completely other world for a chunk of time.

There's also this almost live performance vibe that the entire album gives off.

They do this with certain kinds of guitar tones, the drumming being so driving and present, and the vocals, at times, being right up in your face.

Tracks like "Carving Stupid Symbols" are a great example of creating a bit of depth or spaciousness in the underbelly of a track while still keeping that edginess and the pop element on the forefront.

This is clearly done by a group who have a real love for their craft. There was plenty of attention to detail during the song's creation, but the detail was in the tone.

This record creates a damn near perfect aesthetic and for me it gave me bouts of nostalgia at times.

I love the songs that bring that sort of thrashiness to the table, along with the experimental, chorus-affected guitar tones and drive like "Lizard Face", which has both color and edginess all over it.

This was super fun, and you can hear a lot of the swagger and almost youthfulness in some of these vocals.

There's definitely a riot-rock feel in here, just sort of lurking beneath the surface.

Going back to the energy of this record, it feels almost like this was recorded live on the floor, and everyone involved was feeding off of each other's energies the entire time.

I feel like this is part of why it has that live performance tonality to me.

Of course, I wasn't there, so I have no idea how it was actually recorded but I can tell you that listening to this record makes you want to go see the band perform it live right in your face.

If they can capture this kind of energy in a static on record so well, then seeing it live must be awesome.

As I mentioned before, there is plenty of experimental tonality going on throughout this record, and it's definitely an album that's built with fewer boundaries than what you may be used to, which I loved.

There are expansive tones, different kinds of textures, sonic presence that's completely through the roof, levels of intensity that rise and fall, and the whole thing just feels alive and breathing but still feeds off of this grunge, riot rock, garage approach and does it damn well.

I had a blast listening to this record, and it definitely took me to different places.

Some tracks are fist-in-the-air sing-alongs that thrash hard and with brightness, while others are a bit haunting at times.

The band doesn't do an outstanding job of capturing some of the cinematic rock along with the gritty, fuzz-tone approach.

Most definitely listen to this record, and again, I suggest doing it all the way through from beginning to end.

A lot is going on, and the best way to do it is to turn it up loud or listen to it with headphones on.

Take a deep dive into this one right now and remember where you heard it first.

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