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Martyr is a very interesting band that stands out to me in both the death metal and the technical death metal scenes as a band that is horribly underrated that also serves as a bridge between good old death metal as we know and love, and awful, hideously crappy tech death. However, Martyr’s role as this bridge is odd. You see, they’re not much of an old school death metal band by any standard, yet they’re not at all affiliated with the soulless instrumental wankery of today’s tech tripe. Instead, they blend groove-driven death metal with some 90s influence, and then add their own element of technical musicianship on top. This musicianship, though, isn’t about showing off how many notes they can play in a minute. It’s about adding flair and different elements to their music, which ultimately gives it an identity of its own. While Martyr certainly isn’t obscure, they’re certainly underrated as far as death metal goes.

Warp Zone is a fun album. This is music that is just made for a live setting where all you greasy-haired folk can headbang like crazy. The simple sections of Matryr’s music are full of fun riffs and death/thrash bits that are probably epic live. Hell, this is fun to listen to while sitting around at home. But the real fun comes in the form of Martyr’s technicality. They do anything from altering song structures, to abruptly changing tempos, and making some very abnormal riffs. Yet they do so in a way that doesn’t drive the listener away, but instead leads them into the maze that is Martyr’s music. This is chaotic, winding, yet incredibly fulfilling to listen to. If anything, I consider this to be what Atheist would sound like if they were more modern and death metal-oriented. Well, at least Martyr hasn’t released Jupiter.

Stemming from that, the way that the technicality is presented here is a bit more modern that we’d see from technical death metal bands of the past, like your Atheists, Cynics, and whatnots. Imagine the compactness of a death metal song, meaning from three to five minutes, with the instrumental emphasis of Dream Theater’s instrumental sections. That’s not to say that this is wankery, but instead to say that individual performances are very much emphasized here in the more technical sections, and are not as much of a joint effort as something you’d hear on, say, and Cynic album. The solos stand out. The drumwork stands out. The riffs beneath stand out. The basslines stand out. Everything stands out, but it has feeling to it! That’s the most important part of this entire listening experience.

Anyone familiar with my taste in death metal knows that I shy away from a lot of modern albums described as technical. The lack of any decent songwriting, atmosphere, or emotion just leaves me bored as a listener. You know that I love my old school death metal, of course. Warp Zone, to me, is the album that could have redefined the modern direction of death metal. This has the technical elements that fans of the **weedily weedily** wank like, yet not nearly to the masturbatory extent that those bands employ technicality. Instead, this is simply a more technical, progressive extension of old school death metal, and could have very easily led the path to where the genre could have moved to next. Alas, that is not the case, as Martyr did not have the influence that they should have had. I blame the kids and their wankcore. Regardless, this is a great, unique album that is genuinely fun to listen to. Ignoring it would be quite the disservice to both yourself and death metal.

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