Now they say a third album is the difficult one. Your debut sets out who you are and what you do. Your follow up should be a reaffirmation of that modus operandi and yet show you have scope for progression and are not merely just treading water. Of course the third can be a marker for the continuation of the career, whether you are destined to be a mediocre band whose releases are met with indifference, or a band that can genuinely be considered as a bringer of good to the metal community. Thankfully, Scar Symmetry appear to have taken the more positive route, crafting a powerful and excellent successor to Pitch Black Progress. Their sound is similar to the melodic death of Soilwork, but Scar Symmetry reach into prog, so called Euro-metal and melodic death and mix it up into a pleasing blend of insanely catchy metal anthems. Huge sing a long choruses infect every song with a commercial quality, and although it may not be good game for the more hardened death heads out there, for those of us who find it difficult to resist some shiny, catchy metal with anthems the size of the sky (see Morphogenesis), there’s been little else this year that’s captured that feeling as well as Holographic Universe.
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