'Another European Melodic Death Metal band', I said to myself, probably nothing new or interesting, but yet I had managed to surprise myself. Although, CORAXO accents the Finnish Melodic Death metal just as many other bands before them, they still have their own touch.

To take off the main core; the genre of CORAXO you can't ignore the static, electronic guts the album "Neptune" has. As someone who usually doesn't appreciate Synth- Keyboards, The composition of the synth is amazing, for my general taste, is super diverse and complicated. it definitely has a major contribution to the all atmosphere for this album. You will not find a song without a synthetic fill in "Neptune" .

As good as it may sound, the fact that they have only 3 members to this band intrigues me, and not in a good way. Isn't it binding to have a keyboard player capable of having such dominant compositions? And having another guitar player for fleshing out the riffs? I know that on the recorded level, one person can record, compose and produce multiple instruments, but the big challenge is pulling it out in a live concert. Many in this situation will rely on playbacks, some will hire addition players or just skip some of these parts.

It has been mentioned that Tomi Toivonen is behind all this madness, as a Vocal performer, the only Guitar player and Programmer/ Keyboards, as much as I do count this man for some sort of a genius; I'm not sure that pre-recorded playbacks will do his compositions justice.

The "Neptune" album, is expected to be generic and monotonic for its accentuated genre. However, as I said before, not only the synth plays an interesting role but the whole band is very diverse on their tunes. They simply have it all! Speedy blasting drum beats, crazy guitar riffs, amazing melodic solos, alongside with slow, gentle parts making songs much more melodic and beautiful and even jolly.

The only negative aspect I had noticed in this album, is that there is a monotonic character in the vocal performance by Tomi; sharp, but still hollow and rusty, his mid pitch voice plays an important mission to the whole nature of this album and the band itself by giving the listener cold unnatural, and extraterrestrial experiences.

In the matter of fact, The general sound for "Neptune" album quite resembles to Tomi's performance and fused to the melodic character with its artificial electronic nature , some who like their music live and warm, might not like this Avant-garde Death Metal at all.

And yet, nevertheless, "Neptune" has a high-quality well produced sound for a debut album. I have to say that it's very impressive, which in my opinion, especially for that deserves a high score! Above creativity, general sound and performance everything else is a matter of personal taste.

Although it's hard for me to appreciate electronic synthetic sound, it serves the total purpose and has a meaning behind it; there's nothing mindless or lazy in the elements I had mentioned before. Especially because of having this rich plot and concept of alien life on earth, something that I highly recommend to read before listening, just to feed up your mind and get to the mood. for this rich content, not only with music but also lyrically, "Neptune" by CORAXO wins my love.