Because of that, a new Septicflesh album will always cause me a lot of excitement and expectation. I remember more or less five years ago when I started to get more into extreme and heavier music, this band was a big influence on my taste. With their ninth studio album (and their third since their reunion in 2017), Greek symphonic death metal masters Septicflesh have consecrated themselves as one of the most creative and talented bands in the whole symphonic metal spectrum by presenting a high quality album, both musically and lyrically. (This review was originally written for my personal blog on June 2014). In summary: the band did a great job and Titan is definitely one of the best albums of the year 2014 and I'll still listen to it in years.
The production made by Logan Mader is just another highlight of this wonderful album.
As I already mentioned above, Seth's aggressive vocals are incredibly good, although I was a bit surprised at first, because of how it changed since "The Great Mass". In addition, the guitars have a really unique sound with some even black / dark metal influences in some songs, which fits perfectly to the rest of the band's sound and the atmosphere.
In my opinion, he is one of the best drummers of all time. Now, let's move a bit away from the overall sound: Fotis Benardo did an incredibly good job on this album, the drums and percussion sound perfect. "The First Immortal" finally delivers a successful end to the album, with the sudden end of any instruments and the line "I am the Last", I literally got goosebumps the first time listening. Already with the opener "War in Heaven", the album makes a very good start and continues on a similar level, creating a climax that culminates with "Dogma", "Prometheus" and "Titan". Another thing that should be highlighted is the composition of the album. This ambivalence gives the whole album a unique atmosphere right from the beginning. The whole album has a special mystical atmosphere: on one side the incredibly well done aggressive vocals by Spiros "Seth" Antoniou, on the other side the clean vocals by Sotiris Vayenas and the orchestra. It should be emphasized that the orchestral pieces were written by Christos Antoniou, one of the guitarists of Septicflesh. The cooperation of the orchestra and the band is wonderful to hear and makes this album a true masterpiece. Septicflesh proves once again, that they really deserve the title "Masters of symphonic death metal". Titan - when I hear this word, I think of something monumental, something impressive, something overwhelming and Titan is exactly this! A monumental, bombastic, orchestral epos.
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