Germany's SAPIENCY holds a very special specify and some barely seen characteristics in Modern Metal, indeed they are blending gloriously Thrash Metal brutality with almost every other contemporary Metal style, while keeping a straight riffing habit and a real strong meaty guitar tone, and never surrender to Pop cheese in the chorus line, even mixed with different fashionable elements the core of the band is still Metal and nothing else,

This second album is pretty much in the same line as the previous 2010's "Fate's End", with a bold sound and a sharp aggression, only matched by an impressive amount of melodies, they prove that the cleverness and the progressiveness aren't incompatible or antagonistic with fierce pace or the Thrash legacy worshiping constantly displayed with success in "Tomorrow".

In fact they belongs to the same guild of band like ENGEL or MERCENARY but more inflexible and in a merciless mode, with a further maniacal addiction for catchy hooks and many Metalcore breakdown embellished by technical and surgical riffs and challenging drums part, the whole wrapped in a flurry of dual guitars / keyboards, layer after layer their wall of sound is really impressive. The two vocalist trick is also used in a different way than the regular demonic VS angelic divergence, with SAPIENCY this is not systematic, each vocalist can match the other and they are very complementary, the singers are working in the same direction and the complicity and the homogeneity of the voices is perfect ("Torn Apart" / "Hungry Again") this is definitively not a gimmick.

While I'm taking much care in this comparison, as taking each group in its own predilection style and not wanting to mix things in a dangerous/heady amalgam, but I believe that along with DEALS DEATH / DEGRADEAD / DAMNATION PLAN or SACRED MOTHER TONGUE with SAPIENCY we have another serious contender in the category, for best hope in Modern extreme Melodic Metal for 2013.