Description

Double album on green vinyls with gatefold cover. Comes with the complete album on cd as bonus

German progressive thrashers Mekong Delta have long been one of the most intelligent metal acts on the planet and they seldom get their due. As the oft-referred “best-kept secret in the world” since the mid-Eighties, Mekong Delta has seen its ranks shifted and reassembled numerous times with bassist Ralf Hubert (once operating in the band’s early years under the pseudonym Bjorn Eklund) as the lone remnant of its inception. Dispensing with rumours of exile and even death during a lengthy hiatus, Hubert began to reconvene Mekong Delta in late 2005 and in 2014 they released this mind-blowing work, “In a Mirror Darkly”. Its designed to be a relative companion piece to “Wandering On The Edge Of Time”. As Ralf Hubert himself states, “For me, music doesn’t start with A and end with Z; it’s an ongoing process. In this respect you could call ‘In A Mirror Darkly’ the continuation of the Wanderer theme, but it’s no copy, it’s an independent recording”. With many of the songs clocking past the seven minute mark, Hubert’s assessment of the album being a continuation of the latter album’s sprawling journey is spot-on. It’s also just so impressive one has to wonder why Mekong Delta remains an underground phenomenon. You’re not going to get off easy with constant steadiness no matter how rapid “Hindsight Bias” is, since the seamless signature changes of the band edge and often force the rhythms off-track from the main thrash lines, yet all of it stays cohesive. There is so much to pay attention to with this album like any Mekong Delta record it’s nearly inhuman how mathematic they are, no matter who joins and who leaves. Suffice it to say, one listening session to “In A Mirror Darkly” is hardly enough.

Track list:
1. Introduction
2. Ouverture
3. The Armageddon Machine
4. The Sliver In Gods Eye
5. Janus
6. Inside The Outside Of The Inside
7. Hindsight Bias
8. Mutant Messiah