Event Horizon: Mind Plotter's Latest album

So Mind Plotter is part machine, part artist, all crazy. And by crazy, I mean download it and listen to it and you will understand why.

Right out of the gate, "Conflict" shows the listener what they can expect from this album. A calm, dreamy atmosphere leads into a frenzy of electronic runs paired with guitars playing in sync to the programmed melody. Then, the groove is laid down with "Endless Path". What really makes tracks like this one in the album work so well, is that he starts with a killer riff, then builds off it with another guitar layer or two paired with some electronic runs. Then the riff comes back in as the chaos dies down, but this time the idea is expanded on to give the listener more to comprehend. "Victima Furor" is the only track with vocals put into it (featuring Artyom Kovalenko of "Anthill") and while it's alright for me, I would've either like to see it not on the album with vocals or paired with a couple more songs featuring vocals. I only say this because the rest of the album is great as an instrumental work, and having vocals seems to distract for a short period of time. Good for him to collaborate with other artists, but that's just my opinion of the track.

The title track "Event Horizon" starts as if a Linkin Park quote was coming into play, but then once that low end guitar pairs with the clearly more complex rhythms, you are taken on a journey. "Just Another Day (Part III)" and "Illumination" offer some transition tracks that allow the listener to breathe and process what exactly is going on in this album. The last half of the album is full of so many great riffs in conjunction with programmed accompaniment that it's so hard to try and think that only one man spent time molding this all together, especially the last track on this album, the devilishly catchy "Otiose Dreamer".

I can't really say much about this album in writing without bogging down the review with technological know-how and musical details that would tend to show up in one of my score analysis papers for theory or music lit. I will let this album speak for itself, because It speaks quite loudly. From grooves that could go toe-to-toe with any djent fanatic, to rich textures created by multiple layers of mechanically interwoven sound into expert playing, to catchy, well written courses that could be akin to those written by Muse (listen to "End of the Fifth Sun" and you'll see, it sounds like stuff Muse would put into their songs).

Go download. Go download it. Go download it. It's a really cool album filled with a little something for everyone, but hey, if anything, it was free to begin with, so if you don't like it, someone else can share the same experience for the same price and love it even more.