A single individual's doing can signify a breaking point for the years to come. I think I may have exaggerated a bit by saying so as what you are about to read isn't the utter perfection of a signal for yet another advancement in the music world, yet it has quite a character and the amazing display of a highly urbane musical mind. Adam Laszlo, the creator, composer and founder of the project SOPHICIDE, after three years of hard work of spitting blood and guts, released his debut album, "Perdition Of The Sublime", via Willowtip / Hammerheart Records. Following the startling technical playing abilities and complex musical construct, along with his partner in crime, Sebastian Bracht, SOPHICIDE is the mere generation of the mankind's facade and its own self mockery, lack of common sense and ever growing naivety. Actions based on a lack of thought, according to the examples and notations of this release, will serve, and are serving, as the predominant Achilles heel of mankind and the decider of its own fate. Of course there is chance to learn from mistakes but when reality shows are swarming the TV networks and the only way is down. But who knows really? Maybe one day we will sober up.

Back to the music after that little theoretical debate, the chief elements that had been leading me throughout the listening sessions were the atmospheric nature that engulfs the songs, staggering guitar works and the constant shifting, twisting and turning of the rhythms, like cuts scenes in a fast forward movie. Everything seemed to click just fine while creating a wayward flow. That is why I can state that I could find a sense in the mayhem that Laszlo created on this release. His musical pattern seemed to be influenced from other technical Death Metal gurus like DEATH, ATHEIST and DECAPITATED while resembling newer acts such as OBSCURA and NECROPHAGIST. Laszlo's finest powerhouses are both the guitars and bass works. Though the drumming was explicit but I figured that he used programmed drumming for this release. The drumming is great but I wonder how it would feel with an actual drummer on board. As for the guitars' work, the pair generated astounding melodies and bombastic riffing that would even leave your the chance to enjoy the heaviness while also taking a few gasps of air with an inflicting ambiance that would set you straight on the songs' approach. Due to the high complexity rate of the tracks, it is rather difficult to assert the special ones as memorable because it didn't seem like the firsthand intention at all. I was merely impressed by the great musicianship and its results. I enjoyed "Blood for Honour", "Perdition of the Sublime" and the eye opener in the image of "Freedom of Mind" that emerged as if there was a battle between what is true right in front of our eyes against what is fake, what has been sold to us since our birth day right to our burial. The heavy music along with the harmonies and creative solos delivered their rudimentary message of malevolence.

"Perdition of the Sublime" is a struggle against what has been going on within our vast societies around the world, merely the advanced ones that take free will, reshape it and wholesale it for millions to purchase without reading the small letter. SOPHICIDE distributed it with enough harshness and a measure of ferociousness while showing the appreciation to progressed and composite extreme Metal music and it shows by the smothering devastation of a large selection of riffing, rhythms and paces. There have been black holes when it comes to technical Death Metal but there are examples that also carry a core that actually has something important to say and broadcast to all.