“Awaken”, the band's fourth album, naturally expands on the proficient interplay of the aforementioned subgenres that “Rites of Separation” skilfully established previously. Now, Agrimonia focusses on emphasising and perfecting their knack …show more content…
Listening to its six tracks which average at around 10 minutes apiece- minus the short instrumental title track- never feels like a chore due to the frequent shifts in sonic expression and the dynamic structuring of the album. “A World Unseen” provides a fitting introduction to the album, demonstrating the way in which Argramonia’s guitars reveal this tidal tangibility when placed alongside the racing drums during the faster moments and the way the band easily drifts from swift, intense moments to sparkling melodies only to plunge back into stampeding death metal. Even during the tenderer parts of “Awaken” the songs develop into unpredictable genre-hopping dirges. Glacial synthesizer introduces “Foreshadowed” as a tender track, however, no one could predict that the song would develop into a blackened stomp with infectious hooks, rolling drums and melodies igniting feelings of treachery and malice yet Agrimonia make these shifts in dynamics not only sound coherent but also